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Aquatic plant surface as a niche for methanotrophs

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FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages -

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FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00030

Keywords

methanotroph; aquatic plants; pmoA; methane monooxygenase; methane sink

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  1. Advanced Low Carbon Technology Research and Development Program (ALCA) of the Japan Science and Technology Agency
  2. JSPS KAKENHI [08J03515]
  3. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [08J03515, 25281063, 24710077, 23370013] Funding Source: KAKEN

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This study investigated the potential local CH4 sink in various plant parts as a boundary environment of CH4 emission and consumption. By comparing CH4 consumption activities in cultures inoculated with parts from 39 plant species, we observed significantly higher consumption of CH4 associated with aquatic plants than other emergent plant parts such as woody plant leaves, macrophytic marine algae, and sea grass. In situ activity of CH4 consumption by methanotrophs associated with different species of aquatic plants was in the range of 3.7-37 mu mol.h(-1).g(-1) dry weight, which was ca 5.7-370-fold higher than epiphytic CH4 consumption in submerged parts of emergent plants. The qPCR-estimated copy numbers of the particulate methane monooxygenase-encoding gene pmoA were variable among the aquatic plants and ranged in the order of 10(5)-10(7) copies.g(-1) dry weight, which correlated with the observed CH4 consumption activities. Phylogenetic identification of methanotrophs on aquatic plants based on the pmoA sequence analysis revealed a predominance of diverse gammaproteobacterial type-I methanotrophs, including a phylotype of a possible plant-associated methanotroph with the closest identity (86-89%) to Methylocaldum gracile.

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