Reconnaissance of Oxygenic Denitrifiers in Agriculturally Impacted Soils.

Autor:	Schmitz EV; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 4105 Seamans Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA., Just CL; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 4105 Seamans Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA., Schilling K; Iowa Geological Survey, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA., Streeter M; Iowa Geological Survey, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA., Mattes TE; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 4105 Seamans Center, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	MSphere [mSphere] 2023 Jun 22; Vol. 8 (3), pp. e0057122. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Apr 05.
DOI:	10.1128/msphere.00571-22
Abstrakt:	Row crop production in the agricultural Midwest pollutes waterways with nitrate, and exacerbates climate change through increased emissions of nitrous oxide and methane. Oxygenic denitrification processes in agricultural soils mitigate nitrate and nitrous oxide pollution by short-circuiting the canonical pathway to avoid nitrous oxide formation. Furthermore, many oxygenic denitrifiers employ a nitric oxide dismutase ( nod ) to create molecular oxygen that is used by methane monooxygenase to oxidize methane in otherwise anoxic soils. The direct investigation of nod genes that could facilitate oxygenic denitrification processes in agricultural sites is limited, with no prior studies investigating nod genes at tile drainage sites. Thus, we performed a reconnaissance of nod genes at variably saturated surface sites, and within a variably to fully saturated soil core in Iowa to expand the known distribution of oxygenic denitrifiers. We identified new nod gene sequences from agricultural soil and freshwater sediments in addition to identifying nitric oxide reductase (qNor) related sequences. Surface and variably saturated core samples displayed a nod to 16S rRNA gene relative abundance of 0.004% to 0.1% and fully saturated core samples had relative nod gene abundance of 1.2%. The relative abundance of the phylum Methylomirabilota increased from 0.6% and 1% in the variably saturated core samples to 3.8% and 5.3% in the fully saturated core samples. The more than 10-fold increase in relative nod abundance and almost 9-fold increase in relative Methylomirabilota abundance in fully saturated soils suggests that potential oxygenic denitrifiers play a greater nitrogen cycling role under these conditions. IMPORTANCE The direct investigation of nod genes in agricultural sites is limited, with no prior studies investigating nod genes at tile drains. An improved understanding of nod gene diversity and distribution is significant to the field of bioremediation and ecosystem services. The expansion of the nod gene database will advance oxygenic denitrification as a potential strategy for sustainable nitrate and nitrous oxide mitigation, specifically for agricultural sites. Competing Interests: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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