Sakineh Abbasi, Marion Devers-Lamrani, Fabrice Martin-Laurent, Caroline Michel, Sana Romdhane, Nadine Rouard, Aymé Spor
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Abstract
Even decades after being banned in Europe, atrazine and its main metabolites can still be found in soils. While bioaugmentation using pesticide-degrading bacteria is already employed for remediating polluted soils, there is a need to improve its efficiency. Investigating the use of carrier materials to deliver pesticide-degrading microorganisms in situ emerges as a promising approach. Here, we generated atrazine-degrading biocomposites by cultivating either a bacterial strain or a four-species consortium on zeolite as the carrier material. Using a microcosm approach, we evaluated their efficiency to mineralize 14C-atrazine in soil compared to free-living cells, and assessed their side effects on the native soil bacterial community using 16S rRNA metabarcoding. We showed that, right after inoculation, atrazine mineralization potential of the free-living cells was higher than that of the biocomposites. However, microcosms inoculated with the biocomposites displayed significantly higher atrazine mineralization potential after 15 and 45 days of incubation, indicating a higher efficiency but also a better stability in soil. Inoculation of free-living cells and biocomposites differently influenced the diversity and composition of the native microbial community, their impacts being modulated by the atrazine contamination scenario. Altogether, our results provide a thorough evaluation of the efficiency and the ecological impact of atrazine-degrading biocomposites in soil.
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FEMS Microbiology Ecology aims to ensure efficient publication of high-quality papers that are original and provide a significant contribution to the understanding of microbial ecology. The journal contains Research Articles and MiniReviews on fundamental aspects of the ecology of microorganisms in natural soil, aquatic and atmospheric habitats, including extreme environments, and in artificial or managed environments. Research papers on pure cultures and in the areas of plant pathology and medical, food or veterinary microbiology will be published where they provide valuable generic information on microbial ecology. Papers can deal with culturable and non-culturable forms of any type of microorganism: bacteria, archaea, filamentous fungi, yeasts, protozoa, cyanobacteria, algae or viruses. In addition, the journal will publish Perspectives, Current Opinion and Controversy Articles, Commentaries and Letters to the Editor on topical issues in microbial ecology.
- Application of ecological theory to microbial ecology
- Interactions and signalling between microorganisms and with plants and animals
- Interactions between microorganisms and their physicochemical enviornment
- Microbial aspects of biogeochemical cycles and processes
- Microbial community ecology
- Phylogenetic and functional diversity of microbial communities
- Evolutionary biology of microorganisms