Microbial community structure and dynamics of starch-fed and glucose-fed chemostats during two years of continuous operation

Min GOU, Jing ZENG, Huizhong WANG, Yueqin TANG, Toru SHIGEMATSU, Shigeru MORIMURA, Kenji KIDA

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Front. Environ. Sci. Eng. ›› 2016, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (2) : 368-380. DOI: 10.1007/s11783-015-0815-9
RESEARCH ARTICLE
RESEARCH ARTICLE

Microbial community structure and dynamics of starch-fed and glucose-fed chemostats during two years of continuous operation

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The microbial community structures of two mesophilic anaerobic chemostats, one fed with glucose, the other with starch as sole carbon sources, were studied at various dilution rates (0.05–0.25 d−1 for glucose and 0.025–0.1 d−1 for starch) during two years continuous operation. In the glucose-fed chemostat, the aceticlastic methanogen Methanosaeta spp. and hydrogenotrophic methanogen Methanoculleus spp. predominated at low dilution rates, whereas Methanosaeta spp. and the hydrogenotrophic Methanobacterium spp. predominated together when dilution rates were greater than 0.1 d−1. Bacteria affiliated with the phyla Bacteroidetes, Spirochaetes, and Actinobacteria predominated at dilution rates of 0.05, 0.1, and 0.15 d−1, respectively, while Firmicutes predominated at higher dilution rates (0.2 and 0.25 d−1). In the starch-fed chemostat, the aceticlastic and hydrogenotrophic methanogens coexisted at all dilution rates. Although bacteria belonging to only two phyla were mainly responsible for starch degradation (Spirochaetes at the dilution rate of 0.08 d−1 and Firmicutes at other dilution rates), different bacterial genera were identified at different dilution rates. With the exception of Archaea in the glucose-fed chemostat, the band patterns revealed by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) of the microbial communities in the two chemostats displayed marked changes during long-term operation at a constant dilution rate. The bacterial community changed with changes in the dilution rate, and was erratic during long-term operation in both glucose-fed and starch-fed chemostats.

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microbial community / glucose degradation / starch degradation / dilution rate / continuous methane fermentation / phylogenetic analysis

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Min GOU, Jing ZENG, Huizhong WANG, Yueqin TANG, Toru SHIGEMATSU, Shigeru MORIMURA, Kenji KIDA. Microbial community structure and dynamics of starch-fed and glucose-fed chemostats during two years of continuous operation. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng., 2016, 10(2): 368‒380 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-015-0815-9

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Acknowledgements

The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 31200068).
Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11783-015-0815-9 and is accessible for authorized users.

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