Journal
ANNALS OF MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 67, Issue 11, Pages 751-761Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s13213-017-1303-1
Keywords
Mushroom cropping; Microbial ecology; Fermentation; Nitrification; cDNA; DNA
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- Enterprise Ireland [157004/RR]
- Monaghan Mushrooms Ltd.
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The cultivation of Agaricus bisporus involves the conversion of agricultural materials via fermentation into utilisable simple sugars as a nutrient source for the fungal crop during mushroom cropping. However, little is currently known about the role of the bacterial community contributing to the fermentation process. In this investigation we characterised the composition and dynamics of the DNA and cDNA-derived bacterial populations throughout a commercial mushroom cropping process using MiSeq sequencing. Both methods indicated substantial changes in the bacterial community structure after the first flush of the mushroom crop. However, differences were observed between the composition of the bacterial community determined by each of the two methods. The cDNA-derived community indicated that thermotolerant genera with known sulphur-reducing characteristics were highly active up to the first flush. Activity of the phyla Actinobacteria and Firmicutes was observed to increase as fermentation progressed, indicating that the members of these phyla played prominent roles in the conversion of wheat straw into utilisable sugars. The cDNA-derived community comprised genera with roles in the nitrification process that became highly active at post flush 1. Subsequent chemical analysis of extractable nitrate indicated that substantial nitrification occurred up until the termination of the cropping process. This study has demonstrated that a highly dynamic bacterial community is present throughout the mushroom cropping process.
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