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Microbial biogeochemical cycling reveals the sustainability of the rice-crayfish co-culture model

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ISCIENCE
Volume 26, Issue 5, Pages -

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106769

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Aquaculture has the potential to feed the growing global population, but it also leads to environmental pollution. Rice-cray-fish co-culture models (RCFP) in China are eco-friendly, but little is known about their microbiome pattern. This study reveals that RCFP has advantages in nitrogen assimilation and sulfur pollutants removal, while non-RCFP produces hazardous pollutants. RCFP plays a crucial role in balancing aquaculture productivity and environmental protection.
Aquaculture has great potential in nourishing the global growing population, while such staggering yields are coupled with environmental pollution. Rice-cray-fish co-culture models (RCFP) have been widely adopted in China due to their eco-friendliness. However, little is known about RCFP's microbiome pattern, which hinders our understanding of its sustainability. This study has conducted metagenomic analysis across aquaculture models and habitats, which revealed aquaculture model-specific biogeochemical cycling pattern (e.g., nitrogen (N), sulfur (S), and carbon (C)): RCFP is advantageous in N-assimilation, N-contamination, and S-pollutants removal, while non-RCFP features N denitrification process and higher S metabolism ability, producing several hazardous pollutants in non-RCFP (e.g., nitric oxide, nitrogen monoxide, and sulfide). Moreover, RCFP has greater capacity for carbohydrate enzyme metabolism compared with non-RCFP in environmental habitats, but not in crayfish gut. Collectively, RCFP plays an indispensable role in balancing aquaculture productivity and environmental protection, which might be applied to the blue transformation of aquaculture.

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