›› 2016, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (11): 1915-1921.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1004-1524.2016.11.17

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Microbial ecological process of nitrogen transformation accelerated by different organic carbon in polluted water

ZHAO Pei-wen1, 2, WANG Xin2, WU Yi-fei2, YAO Xiao-hong2, LIU Yong2, SUN Hong2, GE Xiang-yang1, TANG Jiang-wu2, *   

  1. 1. College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070,China;
    2. Institute of Plant Protection and Microbiology, Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Science, Hangzhou 310021, China
  • Received:2016-03-14 Online:2016-11-15 Published:2016-11-16

Abstract: In the present study, methanol, ethanol, sodium acetate, sodium citrate, glucose, sucrose, maltose, and CMC-Na was added in nitrogen-polluted urban river water with C/N of 15∶1. Variation of ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, total nitrogen were detected by national standard method, β-glucosidase activity were determined using the fluorogenic model substrates, and the change of bacterial community structure were analyzed by PCR-DGGE. It was shown that contents of ammonia decreased significantly after organic carbon sources addition except methanol or CMC-Na. Addition of organic carbon sources increased β-glucosidase activity. Bacterial community structure differed obviously with addition of glucose, sucrose and maltose. The results indicated that addition of organic carbon could accelerate transformation of nitrogen in the nitrogen-polluted water, in which microbes played key role. Bacterial community and metabolic activity had different responses to varied organic carbons, which would lead to different strength on nitrogen transformation acceleration.

Key words: organic carbon, polluted water, bacterial community, PCR-DGGE, bacterial metabolic activity

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