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Van Dyck I, Vanhoudt N, Vives I Batlle J, Vargas CS, Horemans N, Van Gompel A, Nauts R, Wijgaerts A, Marchal W, Claesen J, Vangronsveld J. Differentiation between chemo- and radiotoxicity of 137Cs and 60Co on Lemna minor. J Environ Radioact 2024; 272:107351. [PMID: 38064934 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2023.107351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/21/2023] [Revised: 11/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/28/2023] [Indexed: 01/29/2024]
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The uptake and effects of stable Cs and Co on L.minor were extensively studied, together with the effects of gamma radiation using a 137Cs or 60Co source. Innovative is that we combined external irradiation (from 137Cs or 60Co sources) with the direct uptake of certain amounts of stable Cs or Co to simulate the impact of the same mass of a radioisotope compared with that of the stable element. Such approach allows to differentiate between chemo- and radiotoxicity of 137Cs or 60Co, permitting to study the 137Cs and 60Co uptake by L. minor without using high concentrations of these elements in solution. Our results indicate that radiotoxicity of both 137Cs and 60Co has a greater importance compared to their chemotoxicity. This was also supported by the independent action and concentration addition concepts. Both concepts resulted in a good prediction of the dose-response curve of the combination exposure. The maximal removal of 137Cs or 60Co per gram dry matter of L. minor was lower compared with the removal of the corresponding stable isotope. The toxicity of 60Co was higher compared to 137Cs based on EC50 values and uptake data. With respect to the effects on photosynthetic pigments, starch and soluble sugars contents, only starch increased in a concentration- and dose-dependent manner.
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- Isabelle Van Dyck
- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Biosphere Impact Studies, Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium; UHasselt - Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Biosphere Impact Studies, Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium.
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- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Biosphere Impact Studies, Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium
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- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Radiation Protection Dosimetry and Calibrations, Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium
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- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Biosphere Impact Studies, Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium; UHasselt - Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Biosphere Impact Studies, Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium
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- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Biosphere Impact Studies, Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium
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- UHasselt - Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- UHasselt - Hasselt University, Institute for Materials Research (IMO-IMOMEC), Analytical & Circular Chemistry (ACC), Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- UHasselt - Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium; Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Akademicka 19, 20-033, Lublin, Poland
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Rineau F, Groh J, Claes J, Grosjean K, Mench M, Moreno-Druet M, Povilaitis V, Pütz T, Rutkowska B, Schröder P, Soudzilovskaia NA, Swinnen X, Szulc W, Thijs S, Vandenborght J, Vangronsveld J, Vereecken H, Verhaege K, Žydelis R, Loit E. Limited effects of crop foliar Si fertilization on a marginal soil under a future climate scenario. Heliyon 2024; 10:e23882. [PMID: 38192753 PMCID: PMC10772710 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e23882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2023] [Revised: 12/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/14/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024] Open
Abstract
Growing crops on marginal lands is a promising solution to alleviate the increasing pressure on agricultural land in Europe. Such crops will however be at the same time exposed to increased drought and pathogen prevalence, on already challenging soil conditions. Some sustainable practices, such as Silicon (Si) foliar fertilization, have been proposed to alleviate these two stress factors, but have not been tested under controlled, future climate conditions. We hypothesized that Si foliar fertilization would be beneficial for crops under future climate, and would have cascading beneficial effects on ecosystem processes, as many of them are directly dependent on plant health. We tested this hypothesis by exposing spring barley growing on marginal soil macrocosms (three with, three without Si treatment) to 2070 climate projections in an ecotron facility. Using the high-capacity monitoring of the ecotron, we estimated C, water, and N budgets of every macrocosm. Additionally, we measured crop yield, the biomass of each plant organ, and characterized bacterial communities using metabarcoding. Despite being exposed to water stress conditions, plants did not produce more biomass with the foliar Si fertilization, whatever the organ considered. Evapotranspiration (ET) was unaffected, as well as water quality and bacterial communities. However, in the 10-day period following two of the three Si applications, we measured a significant increase in C sequestration, when climate conditions where significantly drier, while ET remained the same. We interpreted these results as a less significant effect of Si treatment than expected as compared with literature, which could be explained by the high CO2 levels under future climate, that reduces need for stomata opening, and therefore sensitivity to drought. We conclude that making marginal soils climate proof using foliar Si treatments may not be a sufficient strategy, at least in this type of nutrient-poor, dry, sandy soil.
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- Francois Rineau
- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation – Soil Science and Soil Ecology, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
- Institute of Bio- and Geoscience (IBG-3, Agrosphere), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
- Research Area 1 “Landscape Functioning,” Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Univ. Bordeaux, INRAE, Biogeco, Bat B2, Allée G. St-Hilaire, F-33615 Pessac cedex, France
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Akademija, LT-58344, Kedainiai distr. Lithuania
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- Institute of Bio- and Geoscience (IBG-3, Agrosphere), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
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- Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
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- Research Unit Environmental Simulation, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Health, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Warsaw University of Life Sciences - SGGW, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Institute of Bio- and Geoscience (IBG-3, Agrosphere), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Institute of Bio- and Geoscience (IBG-3, Agrosphere), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Akademija, LT-58344, Kedainiai distr. Lithuania
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- Estonian University of Life Sciences, Chair of Field Crops and Plant Biology, 51006 Tartu, Estonia
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Langill T, Wójcik M, Vangronsveld J, Thijs S. Endophyte Community Changes in the Seeds of Eight Plant Species following Inoculation with a Multi-Endophytic Bacterial Consortium and an Individual Sphingomonas wittichii Strain Obtained from Noccaea caerulescens. Plants (Basel) 2023; 12:3660. [PMID: 37896123 PMCID: PMC10609953 DOI: 10.3390/plants12203660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2023] [Revised: 10/13/2023] [Accepted: 10/16/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023]
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Noccaea caerulescens, a hyperaccumulator plant species known for its metal tolerance and accumulation abilities, harbours a microbiome of interest within its seed. These seed-associated bacteria, often referred to as seed endophytes, play a unique role in seed germination and plant growth and health. This work aimed to address how inoculating seeds of eight different plant species-Medicago sativa (alfalfa), Zea mays (corn), Raphanus sativus (radish), Helianthus annus (sunflower), Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo (squash), Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla (rainbow chard), Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress), and Noccaea caerulescens (penny cress)-with a bacterial consortium made from the seed endophytes of N. caerulescens would affect the seed microbiome of each test plant species, as well as inoculation with a strain of the bacterium Sphingomonas wittichii, which was previously isolated from seeds of N. caerulescens. Additionally, we aimed to offer preliminary plant tests in order to determine the best seed treatment plan for future research. The results showed that inoculation with the bacterial consortium held the most potential for increasing plant size (p < 0.001) and increasing germination rate (p < 0.05). The plant that responded best to inoculation was N. caerulescens (penny cress), likely because the microbes being introduced into the seed were not foreign. This paper also offers the first insight into the seed endophytes of Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla, highlighting an abundance of Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Actinobacteriota.
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- Tori Langill
- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium (J.V.)
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium (J.V.)
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-033 Lublin, Poland
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium (J.V.)
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-033 Lublin, Poland
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium (J.V.)
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Oleńska E, Małek W, Wójcik M, Szopa S, Swiecicka I, Aleksandrowicz O, Włostowski T, Zawadzka W, Sillen WMA, Vangronsveld J, Cholakova I, Langill T, Thijs S. Bacteria associated with Zn-hyperaccumulators Arabidopsis halleri and Arabidopsis arenosa from Zn-Pb-Cd waste heaps in Poland as promising tools for bioremediation. Sci Rep 2023; 13:12606. [PMID: 37537323 PMCID: PMC10400580 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-39852-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2023] [Accepted: 08/01/2023] [Indexed: 08/05/2023] Open
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To identify metal adapted bacteria equipped with traits positively influencing the growth of two hyperaccumulator plant species Arabidopsis arenosa and Arabidopsis halleri, we isolated bacteria inhabiting rhizosphere and vegetative tissues (roots, basal and stem leaves) of plants growing on two old Zn-Pb-Cd waste heaps in Bolesław and Bukowno (S. Poland), and characterized their potential plant growth promoting (PGP) traits as well as determined metal concentrations in rhizosphere and plant tissues. To determine taxonomic position of 144 bacterial isolates, 16S rDNA Sanger sequencing was used. A metabolic characterization of isolated strains was performed in vitro using PGP tests. A. arenosa and A. halleri accumulate high amounts of Zn in their tissues, especially in stem leaves. Among in total 22 identified bacterial taxa, the highest level of the taxonomical diversity (H' = 2.01) was revealed in A. halleri basal leaf endophytes originating from Bukowno waste heap area. The 96, 98, 99, and 98% of investigated strains showed tolerant to Cd, Zn, Pb and Cu, respectively. Generally, higher percentages of bacteria could synthesize auxins, siderophores, and acetoin as well as could solubilize phosphate. Nine of waste heap origin bacterial strains were tolerant to toxic metals, showed in vitro PGP traits and are potential candidates for bioremediation.
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- Ewa Oleńska
- Faculty of Biology, University of Bialystok, 1J Ciołkowski, 15-245, Bialystok, Poland.
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- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 19 Akademicka, 20-033, Lublin, Poland
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- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 19 Akademicka, 20-033, Lublin, Poland
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- SHIM-POL A.M. Borzymowski, 5 Lubomirski, 05-080, Izabelin, Poland
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Bialystok, 1J Ciołkowski, 15-245, Bialystok, Poland
- Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, University of Bialystok, 1J Ciołkowski, 15-245, Bialystok, Poland
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Bialystok, 1J Ciołkowski, 15-245, Bialystok, Poland
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Bialystok, 1J Ciołkowski, 15-245, Bialystok, Poland
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- Faculty of Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 19 Akademicka, 20-033, Lublin, Poland
- Faculty of Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Faculty of Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Faculty of Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Faculty of Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Saran A, Much D, Vangronsveld J, Merini L. Phytomanagement of trace element polluted fields with aromatic plants: supporting circular bio-economies. Int J Phytoremediation 2023; 26:169-177. [PMID: 37486171 DOI: 10.1080/15226514.2023.2231554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/25/2023]
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Trace elements pollution of soils became a global concern because of their persistence in the environment which can lead to accumulation in food chains up to toxic levels. At the same time, there is a shortage of arable land for growing food, fodder and industrial crops, which highlights the need for remediation/use of polluted land. Restoration of degraded lands has been included as a vital component of UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We summarize various sources of entry of important trace elements in the environment, available biological reclamation and management strategies and their limitations. Recent advances in phytomanagement approaches using aromatic crops to obtain economically valuable products such as essential oils and revalorize such polluted areas are reviewed. The worldwide application of this strategy in the last 10 years is illustrated through a choropleth map. Finally, the emerging concept of phytomanagement as a restorative and regenerative circular bio-economy is also discussed.
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- Anabel Saran
- CONICET, Agency of Scientific Investigation, La Pampa, Argentina
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- CONICET, Agency of Scientific Investigation, La Pampa, Argentina
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- CONICET, Agency of Scientific Investigation, La Pampa, Argentina
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Petrosyan K, Thijs S, Piwowarczyk R, Ruraż K, Kaca W, Vangronsveld J. Diversity and potential plant growth promoting capacity of seed endophytic bacteria of the holoparasite Cistanche phelypaea (Orobanchaceae). Sci Rep 2023; 13:11835. [PMID: 37481658 PMCID: PMC10363106 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-38899-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 07/17/2023] [Indexed: 07/24/2023] Open
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Salt marshes are highly dynamic, biologically diverse ecosystems with a broad range of ecological functions. We investigated the endophytic bacterial community of surface sterilized seeds of the holoparasitic Cistanche phelypaea growing in coastal salt marshes of the Iberian Peninsula in Portugal. C. phelypaea is the only representative of the genus Cistanche that was reported in such habitat. Using high-throughput sequencing methods, 23 bacterial phyla and 263 different OTUs on genus level were found. Bacterial strains belonging to phyla Proteobacteria and Actinobacteriota were dominating. Also some newly classified or undiscovered bacterial phyla, unclassified and unexplored taxonomic groups, symbiotic Archaea groups inhabited the C. phelypaea seeds. γ-Proteobacteria was the most diverse phylogenetic group. Sixty-three bacterial strains belonging to Bacilli, Actinomycetes, α-, γ- and β-Proteobacteria and unclassified bacteria were isolated. We also investigated the in vitro PGP traits and salt tolerance of the isolates. Among the Actinobacteria, Micromonospora spp. showed the most promising endophytes in the seeds. Taken together, the results indicated that the seeds were inhabited by halotolerant bacterial strains that may play a role in mitigating the adverse effects of salt stress on the host plant. In future research, these bacteria should be assessed as potential sources of novel and unique bioactive compounds or as novel bacterial species.
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- Kristine Petrosyan
- Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Jan Kochanowski University, Uniwersytecka 7, 25-406, Kielce, Poland.
- Environmental Biology Research Group, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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- Environmental Biology Research Group, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Environmental Biology, Center for Research and Conservation of Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, Jan Kochanowski University, Uniwersytecka 7, 25-406, Kielce, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Biology, Center for Research and Conservation of Biodiversity, Institute of Biology, Jan Kochanowski University, Uniwersytecka 7, 25-406, Kielce, Poland
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- Department of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Jan Kochanowski University, Uniwersytecka 7, 25-406, Kielce, Poland
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- Environmental Biology Research Group, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka, 19, 20-033, Lublin, Poland
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Van Dyck I, Vanhoudt N, Vives I Batlle J, Horemans N, Van Gompel A, Nauts R, Vangronsveld J. Effects of environmental parameters on starch and soluble sugars in Lemna minor. Plant Physiol Biochem 2023; 200:107755. [PMID: 37216822 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2023.107755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2023] [Revised: 04/24/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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- Isabelle Van Dyck
- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Biosphere Impact Studies, Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium; UHasselt - Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Biosphere Impact Studies, Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium
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- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Biosphere Impact Studies, Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium
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- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Biosphere Impact Studies, Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium; UHasselt - Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Biosphere Impact Studies, Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium
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- Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Biosphere Impact Studies, Boeretang 200, 2400, Mol, Belgium
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- UHasselt - Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium; Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Akademicka 19, 20-033, Lublin, Poland
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Perea-Vélez YS, Carrillo-González R, González-Chávez MDCA, Vangronsveld J, Monasterio IO, Tapia Maruri D. Citrate-coated cobalt ferrite nanoparticles for the nano-enabled biofortification of wheat. Food Funct 2023; 14:4017-4035. [PMID: 37067010 DOI: 10.1039/d2fo03835h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/18/2023]
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A pot experiment was conducted in an open greenhouse to explore the use of citrate-coated cobalt ferrite nanoparticles (CoFe2O4 NPs) as a source for Fe fortification of three wheat lines (Triticum aestivum L.). Two of the three wheat lines tested differ in their efficiency concerning Zn storage in their grains (efficient and inefficient), and one had inefficient P-absorption. The NPs were supplied by foliar or soil application of Fe at 330 mg L-1, and 46 or 68 mg kg-1 soil, respectively. A positive control (Fe-EDTA salt, a conventional iron fertilizer) and a negative control (no fertilization) were also included to compare the efficiency of NP fertilization. Soil fertilization with NPs improved the grain yield and Fe concentration in the grains compared with the foliar application of NPs and conventional Fe fertilizer. Application of soil NPs at 68 mg kg-1 increased the grain yield by 52% and 21% compared with the control and soil Fe-EDTA treatments, respectively. Likewise, grain Fe concentration increased by 96% and 72% compared with the control and soil Fe-EDTA treatments, respectively. The phytic acid concentration in grains and the phytic acid:Fe ratio decreased by 6% and 62%, respectively, due to the soil application of NPs (68 mg Fe per kg). The Fe grain concentration of lines inefficient for Zn storage and P-uptake in plants from soil fertilized with NPs (68 mg Fe per kg) was 1.37 and 0.26 fold above the target biofortification concentration (60 mg Fe per kg). Cobalt concentration in grains ranged from 9 to 16 mg kg-1. These concentrations were below the maximum allowable limit of Co in grains (50 mg kg-1) recommended by FAO and the WHO. Our results showed that Fe supplied as NPs may improve the nutritional quality of wheat grains, and the economic yield. However, there remains a long way to go to achieve effective and economic use of nanotechnology for the nutritional development of wheat.
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- Yazmín Stefani Perea-Vélez
- Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo, Carretera México-Texcoco, Texcoco, Edo. De México, 56264, Mexico.
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- Colegio de Postgraduados, Campus Montecillo, Carretera México-Texcoco, Texcoco, Edo. De México, 56264, Mexico.
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland
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- International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Carretera Mexico-Veracruz Km. 45, El Batan, Texcoco, Edo. de México, C.P. 56237, Mexico
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Borgo L, Rabêlo FHS, Rossi ML, Santos FHD, Nogueira MLG, Alleoni LRF, Linhares FS, Vangronsveld J, Lavres J. Effect of selenium and soil pH on cadmium phytoextraction by Urochloa decumbens grown in Oxisol. J Hazard Mater 2023; 447:130771. [PMID: 36696772 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.130771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Revised: 12/19/2022] [Accepted: 01/09/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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It has been speculated that selenium (Se) supply can affect cadmium (Cd) 'availability' and increase the Cd tolerance of plants used for phytoextraction, in a pH-dependent process. Thus, we evaluated the interaction Cd-Se and the effects of soil pH in this interaction on plant availability of Cd and phytoextraction efficiency of Urochloa decumbens cv. Basilisk grown in Oxisol. Two soil concentrations of Cd (0.93 and 3.6 mg kg-1) and Se (<0.2 and 1 mg kg-1) and two soil pH (0.01 mol L-1 CaCl2) conditions (4.1 and 5.7) were considered. At both pH, Se supply increased the exchangeable fraction of Cd and decreased the residual Cd fraction. At pH 4.1, the growth of U. decumbens was impaired by Se addition, regardless of Cd exposure. The lower root growth and tillering of U. decumbens exposed to Cd disappeared at pH 5.7 due to uptake of low Se concentrations. Thus, the toxic or beneficial effects of Se on growth of U. decumbens used for Cd phytoextraction depend on the amount of Se assimilated. The Cd phytoextraction efficiency of U. decumbens was not improved by Se supply, regardless of soil pH. Therefore, we cannot recommend the application of Se to increase Cd phytoextraction by this grass.
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- Lucélia Borgo
- University of São Paulo, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Piracicaba 13416-000, Brazil.
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- University of São Paulo, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Piracicaba 13416-000, Brazil
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- Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Diepenbeek B3590, Belgium; Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Institute of Biological Sciences, Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Lublin 20-033, Poland
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- University of São Paulo, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, Piracicaba 13416-000, Brazil
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Cardilli A, Hamad I, Dyczko A, Thijs S, Vangronsveld J, Müller DN, Rosshart SP, Kleinewietfeld M. Impact of High Salt-Intake on a Natural Gut Ecosystem in Wildling Mice. Nutrients 2023; 15:nu15071565. [PMID: 37049406 PMCID: PMC10096756 DOI: 10.3390/nu15071565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2023] [Revised: 02/27/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2023] [Indexed: 03/28/2023] Open
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The mammalian holobiont harbors a complex and interdependent mutualistic gut bacterial community. Shifts in the composition of this bacterial consortium are known to be a key element in host health, immunity and disease. Among many others, dietary habits are impactful drivers for a potential disruption of the bacteria–host mutualistic interaction. In this context, we previously demonstrated that a high-salt diet (HSD) leads to a dysbiotic condition of murine gut microbiota, characterized by a decrease or depletion of well-known health-promoting gut bacteria. However, due to a controlled and sanitized environment, conventional laboratory mice (CLM) possess a less diverse gut microbiota compared to wild mice, leading to poor translational outcome for gut microbiome studies, since a reduced gut microbiota diversity could fail to depict the complex interdependent networks of the microbiome. Here, we evaluated the HSD effect on gut microbiota in CLM in comparison to wildling mice, which harbor a natural gut ecosystem more closely mimicking the situation in humans. Mice were treated with either control food or HSD and gut microbiota were profiled using amplicon-based methods targeting the 16S ribosomal gene. In line with previous findings, our results revealed that HSD induced significant loss of alpha diversity and extensive modulation of gut microbiota composition in CLM, characterized by the decrease in potentially beneficial bacteria from Firmicutes phylum such as the genera Lactobacillus, Roseburia, Tuzzerella, Anaerovorax and increase in Akkermansia and Parasutterella. However, HSD-treated wildling mice did not show the same changes in terms of alpha diversity and loss of Firmicutes bacteria as CLM, and more generally, wildlings exhibited only minor shifts in the gut microbiota composition upon HSD. In line with this, 16S-based functional analysis suggested only major shifts of gut microbiota ecological functions in CLM compared to wildling mice upon HSD. Our findings indicate that richer and wild-derived gut microbiota is more resistant to dietary interventions such as HSD, compared to gut microbiota of CLM, which may have important implications for future translational microbiome research.
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Langill T, Jorissen LP, Oleńska E, Wójcik M, Vangronsveld J, Thijs S. Community Profiling of Seed Endophytes from the Pb-Zn Hyperaccumulator Noccaea caerulescens and Their Plant Growth Promotion Potential. Plants (Basel) 2023; 12:643. [PMID: 36771725 PMCID: PMC9920717 DOI: 10.3390/plants12030643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Revised: 01/24/2023] [Accepted: 01/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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Endophytes within plants are known to be crucial for plant fitness, and while their presence and functions in many compartments have been studied in depth, the research on seed endophytes is still limited. This work aimed to characterize the seed endophytic and rhizospheric bacterial community of two Noccaea caerulescens Pb-Zn hyperaccumulator populations, growing on two heavy-metal-polluted sites in Belgium. Cultured representatives were evaluated for their potential to enhance seed germination and root length of the model species Arabidopsis thaliana. The results indicated that the community structure within the seed is conserved between the two locations, comprising mainly of Proteobacteria (seeds), and Actinobacteria in the bulk soil. Root length of A. thaliana was significantly increased when inoculated with Sphingomonas vulcanisoli. The results of this paper offer insights into the importance of the selection of the core seed endophytic microbiome and highlight the precarious symbiotic relationship they have with the plant and seed.
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- Tori Langill
- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Bialystok, 1J Ciołkowski, 15-245 Bialystok, Poland
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-033 Lublin, Poland
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-033 Lublin, Poland
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Van Pee T, Hogervorst J, Dockx Y, Witters K, Thijs S, Wang C, Bongaerts E, Van Hamme JD, Vangronsveld J, Ameloot M, Raes J, Nawrot TS. Accumulation of Black Carbon Particles in Placenta, Cord Blood, and Childhood Urine in Association with the Intestinal Microbiome Diversity and Composition in Four- to Six-Year-Old Children in the ENVIR ONAGE Birth Cohort. Environ Health Perspect 2023; 131:17010. [PMID: 36719212 PMCID: PMC9888258 DOI: 10.1289/ehp11257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND The gut microbiome plays an essential role in human health. Despite the link between air pollution exposure and various diseases, its association with the gut microbiome during susceptible life periods remains scarce. OBJECTIVES In this study, we examined the association between black carbon particles quantified in prenatal and postnatal biological matrices and bacterial richness and diversity measures, and bacterial families. METHODS A total of 85 stool samples were collected from 4- to 6-y-old children enrolled in the ENVIRonmental influence ON early AGEing birth cohort. We performed 16S rRNA gene sequencing to calculate bacterial richness and diversity indices (Chao1 richness, Shannon diversity, and Simpson diversity) and the relative abundance of bacterial families. Black carbon particles were quantified via white light generation under femtosecond pulsed laser illumination in placental tissue and cord blood, employed as prenatal exposure biomarkers, and in urine, used as a post-natal exposure biomarker. We used robust multivariable-adjusted linear models to examine the associations between quantified black carbon loads and measures of richness (Chao1 index) and diversity (Shannon and Simpson indices), adjusting for parity, season of delivery, sequencing batch, age, sex, weight and height of the child, and maternal education. Additionally, we performed a differential relative abundance analysis of bacterial families with a correction for sampling fraction bias. Results are expressed as percentage difference for a doubling in black carbon loads with 95% confidence interval (CI). RESULTS Two diversity indices were negatively associated with placental black carbon [Shannon: -4.38% (95% CI: -8.31%, -0.28%); Simpson: -0.90% (95% CI: -1.76%, -0.04%)], cord blood black carbon [Shannon: -3.38% (95% CI: -5.66%, -0.84%); Simpson: -0.91 (95% CI: -1.66%, -0.16%)], and urinary black carbon [Shannon: -3.39% (95% CI: -5.77%, -0.94%); Simpson: -0.89% (95% CI: -1.37%, -0.40%)]. The explained variance of black carbon on the above indices varied from 6.1% to 16.6%. No statistically significant associations were found between black carbon load and the Chao1 richness index. After multiple testing correction, placental black carbon was negatively associated with relative abundance of the bacterial families Defluviitaleaceae and Marinifilaceae, and urinary black carbon with Christensenellaceae and Coriobacteriaceae; associations with cord blood black carbon were not statistically significant after correction. CONCLUSION Black carbon particles quantified in prenatal and postnatal biological matrices were associated with the composition and diversity of the childhood intestinal microbiome. These findings address the influential role of exposure to air pollution during pregnancy and early life in human health. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP11257.
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- Thessa Van Pee
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Biomedical Research Institute, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Rega Instituut, KU Leuven-University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- Center for Microbiology, VIB, Leuven, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium
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Postiglione A, Prigioniero A, Zuzolo D, Tartaglia M, Scarano P, Maisto M, Ranauda MA, Sciarrillo R, Thijs S, Vangronsveld J, Guarino C. Quercus ilex Phyllosphere Microbiome Environmental-Driven Structure and Composition Shifts in a Mediterranean Contex. Plants (Basel) 2022; 11:3528. [PMID: 36559640 PMCID: PMC9782775 DOI: 10.3390/plants11243528] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2022] [Revised: 12/07/2022] [Accepted: 12/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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The intra- and interdomain phyllosphere microbiome features of Quercus ilex L. in a Mediterranean context is reported. We hypothesized that the main driver of the phyllosphere microbiome might be the season and that atmospheric pollutants might have a co-effect. Hence, we investigated the composition of epiphytic bacteria and fungi of leaves sampled in urban and natural areas (in Southern Italy) in summer and winter, using microscopy and metagenomic analysis. To assess possible co-effects on the composition of the phyllosphere microbiome, concentrations of particulate matter and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were determined from sampled leaves. We found that environmental factors had a significative influence on the phyllosphere biodiversity, altering the taxa relative abundances. Ascomycota and Firmicutes were higher in summer and in urban areas, whereas a significant increase in Proteobacteria was observed in the winter season, with higher abundance in natural areas. Network analysis suggested that OTUs belonging to Acidobacteria, Cytophagia, unkn. Firmicutes(p), Actinobacteria are keystone of the Q. ilex phyllosphere microbiome. In addition, 83 genes coding for 5 enzymes involved in PAH degradation pathways were identified. Given that the phyllosphere microbiome can be considered an extension of the ecosystem services offered by trees, our results can be exploited in the framework of Next-Generation Biomonitoring.
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- Alessia Postiglione
- Department of Science and Technology, University of Sannio, via de Sanctis snc, 82100 Benevento, Italy
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- Department of Science and Technology, University of Sannio, via de Sanctis snc, 82100 Benevento, Italy
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- Department of Science and Technology, University of Sannio, via de Sanctis snc, 82100 Benevento, Italy
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- Department of Science and Technology, University of Sannio, via de Sanctis snc, 82100 Benevento, Italy
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- Department of Science and Technology, University of Sannio, via de Sanctis snc, 82100 Benevento, Italy
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- Department of Science and Technology, University of Sannio, via de Sanctis snc, 82100 Benevento, Italy
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- Department of Science and Technology, University of Sannio, via de Sanctis snc, 82100 Benevento, Italy
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- Department of Science and Technology, University of Sannio, via de Sanctis snc, 82100 Benevento, Italy
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Science and Technology, University of Sannio, via de Sanctis snc, 82100 Benevento, Italy
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Saran A, Fernandez L, Latini CY, Reinhard MB, Minig M, Thijs S, Vangronsveld J, Merini LJ. Phytomanagement of a Lead-Polluted Shooting Range Using an Aromatic Plant Species and Its Effects on the Rhizosphere Bacterial Diversity and Essential Oil Production. Plants (Basel) 2022; 11:3024. [PMID: 36432757 PMCID: PMC9696282 DOI: 10.3390/plants11223024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2022] [Revised: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 11/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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This field study aimed to assess the baseline conditions of a long-term shooting range in Argentina polluted with 428 mg kg-1 lead (Pb) to evaluate the establishment and development of Helianthus petiolaris plants and address the efficacy of the phytomanagement strategy through: (i) element accumulation in plant tissues; (ii) rhizosphere bacterial diversity changes by Illumina Miseq™, and (iii) floral water and essential oil yield, composition, and element concentration by GC-MS and ICP. After one life cycle growing in the polluted sites, in the roots of Helianthus petiolaris plants, Pb concentration was between 195 and 304 mg kg-1 Pb. Only a limited fraction of the Pb was translocated to the aerial parts. The predominance of the genus Serratia in the rhizosphere of Helianthus petiolaris plants cultivated in the polluted sites and the decrease in the essential oil yield were some effects significantly associated with soil Pb concentration. No detectable Pb concentration was found in the floral water and essential oil obtained. Extractable Pb concentration in the soil reduced between 28% and 45% after the harvest.
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- Anabel Saran
- Scientific Research Agency, CONICET, Santa Rosa L6300, La Pampa, Argentina
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- Department of Chemistry, National University of La Pampa, Santa Rosa L6300, La Pampa, Argentina
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Akademicka, 19, 20-400 Lublin, Poland
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Navazas A, Mesa V, Thijs S, Fuente-Maqueda F, Vangronsveld J, Peláez AI, Cuypers A, González A. Bacterial inoculant-assisted phytoremediation affects trace element uptake and metabolite content in Salix atrocinerea. Sci Total Environ 2022; 820:153088. [PMID: 35063508 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2021] [Revised: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 01/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Natural plant-associated microorganisms are of critical importance to plant growth and survival in field conditions under toxic concentrations of trace elements (TE) and these plant-microbial processes can be harnessed to enhance phytoremediation. The total bacterial diversity from grey willow (Salix atrocinerea) on a brownfield heavily-polluted with lead (Pb) and arsenic (As) was studied through pyrosequencing. Culturable bacteria were isolated and in vitro tested for plant growth-promotion (PGP) traits, arsenic (As) tolerance and impact on As speciation. Two of the most promising bacterial strains - the root endophyte Pantoea sp. AV62 and the rhizospheric strain Rhodococcus erythropolis AV96 - were inoculated in field to S. atrocinerea. This bioaugmentation resulted in higher As and Pb concentrations in both, roots and leaves of bacterial-inoculated plants as compared to non-inoculated plants. In consequence, bacterial bioaugmentation also affected parameters related to plant growth, oxidative stress, the levels of phytochelatins and phenylpropanoids, together with the differential expression of genes related to these tolerance mechanisms to TE in leaves. This study extends our understanding about plant-bacterial interactions and provides a solid basis for further bioaugmentation studies aiming to improve TE phytoremediation efficiency and predictability in the field.
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- Alejandro Navazas
- Department of Organisms and Systems Biology, Area of Plant Physiology, University of Oviedo, Catedrático Rodrigo Uría s/n, 33006 Oviedo, Spain; Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Faculty of Pharmacy, Université de Paris, UMR-S1139, F-75006 Paris, France
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Area of Microbiology, Department of Functional Biology and Environmental Biogeochemistry and Raw Materials Group, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain; University Institute of Biotechnology of Asturias (IUBA), University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Organisms and Systems Biology, Area of Plant Physiology, University of Oviedo, Catedrático Rodrigo Uría s/n, 33006 Oviedo, Spain.
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Oleńska E, Małek W, Sujkowska-Rybkowska M, Szopa S, Włostowski T, Aleksandrowicz O, Swiecicka I, Wójcik M, Thijs S, Vangronsveld J. An Alliance of Trifolium repens—Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii—Mycorrhizal Fungi From an Old Zn-Pb-Cd Rich Waste Heap as a Promising Tripartite System for Phytostabilization of Metal Polluted Soils. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:853407. [PMID: 35495712 PMCID: PMC9051510 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.853407] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2022] [Accepted: 03/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The Bolesław waste heap in South Poland, with total soil Zn concentrations higher than 50,000 mg kg–1, 5,000 mg Pb kg–1, and 500 mg Cd kg–1, is a unique habitat for metallicolous plants, such as Trifolium repens L. The purpose of this study was to characterize the association between T. repens and its microbial symbionts, i.e., Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii and mycorrhizal fungi and to evaluate its applicability for phytostabilization of metal-polluted soils. Rhizobia originating from the nutrient-poor waste heap area showed to be efficient in plant nodulation and nitrogen fixation. They demonstrated not only potential plant growth promotion traits in vitro, but they also improved the growth of T. repens plants to a similar extent as strains from a non-polluted reference area. Our results revealed that the adaptations of T. repens to high Zn-Pb-Cd concentrations are related to the storage of metals predominantly in the roots (excluder strategy) due to nodule apoplast modifications (i.e., thickening and suberization of cell walls, vacuolar storage), and symbiosis with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi of a substantial genetic diversity. As a result, the rhizobia-mycorrhizal fungi-T. repens association appears to be a promising tool for phytostabilization of Zn-Pb-Cd-polluted soils.
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- Ewa Oleńska
- Faculty of Biology, University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
- *Correspondence: Ewa Oleńska,
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- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
- Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
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- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Mierzejewska E, Urbaniak M, Zagibajło K, Vangronsveld J, Thijs S. The Effect of Syringic Acid and Phenoxy Herbicide 4-chloro-2-methylphenoxyacetic acid (MCPA) on Soil, Rhizosphere, and Plant Endosphere Microbiome. Front Plant Sci 2022; 13:882228. [PMID: 35712561 PMCID: PMC9195007 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2022.882228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/02/2022] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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The integration of phytoremediation and biostimulation can improve pollutant removal from the environment. Plant secondary metabolites (PSMs), which are structurally related to xenobiotics, can stimulate the presence of microbial community members, exhibiting specialized functions toward detoxifying, and thus mitigating soil toxicity. In this study, we evaluated the effects of enrichment of 4-chloro-2-methylphenoxyacetic acid (MCPA) contaminated soil (unplanted and zucchini-planted) with syringic acid (SA) on the bacterial community structure in soil, the rhizosphere, and zucchini endosphere. Additionally, we measured the concentration of MCPA in soil and fresh biomass of zucchini. The diversity of bacterial communities differed significantly between the studied compartments (i.e., unplanted soil, rhizospheric soil, and plant endosphere: roots or leaves) and between used treatments (MCPA or/and SA application). The highest diversity indices were observed for unplanted soil and rhizosphere. Although the lowest diversity was observed among leaf endophytes, this community was significantly affected by MCPA or SA: the compounds applied separately favored the growth of Actinobacteria (especially Pseudarthrobacter), while their simultaneous addition promoted the growth of Firmicutes (especially Psychrobacillus). The application of MCPA + SA together lead also to enhanced growth of Pseudomonas, Burkholderia, Sphingomonas, and Pandoraea in the rhizosphere, while SA increased the occurrence of Pseudomonas in leaves. In addition, SA appeared to have a positive influence on the degradative potential of the bacterial communities against MCPA: its addition, followed by zucchini planting, significantly increased the removal of the herbicide (50%) from the soil without affecting, neither positively nor negatively, the plant growth.
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- Elżbieta Mierzejewska
- UNESCO Chair on Ecohydrology and Applied Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
- *Correspondence: Elżbieta Mierzejewska,
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- UNESCO Chair on Ecohydrology and Applied Ecology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Łódź, Łódź, Poland
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- Food Safety Laboratory, Research Institute of Horticulture, Skierniewice, Poland
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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Deckers J, Hendrix S, Prinsen E, Vangronsveld J, Cuypers A. Glutathione Is Required for the Early Alert Response and Subsequent Acclimation in Cadmium-Exposed Arabidopsis thaliana Plants. Antioxidants (Basel) 2021; 11:6. [PMID: 35052510 PMCID: PMC8773091 DOI: 10.3390/antiox11010006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2021] [Revised: 12/13/2021] [Accepted: 12/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Pollution by cadmium (Cd) is a worldwide problem, posing risks to human health and impacting crop yield and quality. Cadmium-induced phytotoxicity arises from an imbalance between antioxidants and pro-oxidants in favour of the latter. The Cd-induced depletion of the major antioxidant glutathione (GSH) strongly contributes to this imbalance. Rather than being merely an adverse effect of Cd exposure, the rapid depletion of root GSH levels was proposed to serve as an alert response. This alarm phase is crucial for an optimal stress response, which defines acclimation later on. To obtain a better understanding on the importance of GSH in the course of these responses and how these are defined by the rapid GSH depletion, analyses were performed in the GSH-deficient cadmium-sensitive 2-1 (cad2-1) mutant. Cadmium-induced root and leaf responses related to oxidative challenge, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), GSH, ethylene, and 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) were compared between wild-type (WT) and mutant Arabidopsis thaliana plants. Although the cad2-1 mutant has significantly lower GSH levels, root GSH depletion still occurred, suggesting that the chelating capacity of GSH is prioritised over its antioxidative function. We demonstrated that responses related to GSH metabolism and ACC production were accelerated in mutant roots and that stress persisted due to suboptimal acclimation. In general, the redox imbalance in cad2-1 mutant plants and the lack of proper transient ethylene signalling contributed to this suboptimal acclimation, resulting in a more pronounced Cd effect.
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- Jana Deckers
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (J.D.); (S.H.); (J.V.)
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (J.D.); (S.H.); (J.V.)
- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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- Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium;
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (J.D.); (S.H.); (J.V.)
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (J.D.); (S.H.); (J.V.)
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Van Dyck I, Vanhoudt N, Vives I Batlle J, Horemans N, Nauts R, Van Gompel A, Claesen J, Vangronsveld J. Effects of environmental parameters on Lemna minor growth: An integrated experimental and modelling approach. J Environ Manage 2021; 300:113705. [PMID: 34530368 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Revised: 08/23/2021] [Accepted: 09/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Pollution of surface waters is a worldwide problem for people and wildlife. Remediation and phytoremediation approaches can offer a solution to deal with specific scenarios. Lemna minor, commonly known as duckweed, can absorb and accumulate pollutants in its biomass. To evaluate if L. minor could be applied for phytoremediation purposes, it is necessary to further investigate its remediation capability and to identify which parameters affect the remediation process. Such a model must include both plant growth and pollutant exchange. A remediation model based on a robust experimental study can help to evaluate L. minor as a proper remediation strategy and to predict the outcome of a L. minor based remediation system. To set up this model, this paper focusses on a detailed experimental study and a comprehensive mathematical modelling approach to represent L. minor growth as a function of biomass, temperature, light irradiation and variable nutrient concentrations. The influence of environmental conditions on L. minor growth was studied, by composing 7 days growth curves. Plants were grown under predefined environmental conditions (25°C, 14h photoperiod, 220 μmol m-2 s-1 light intensity and a modified Hoagland solution with 23.94 mg N L-1 and 3.10 mg P L-1 (N:P ratio of 7.73)) as standard for all experiments. The influence of different temperatures (6, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 35°C), light intensities (63, 118, 170, 220 and 262 μmol m-2 s-1), photoperiods (12h and 14h) and N:P ratios (1.18, 3.36, 7.73 and 29.57) were tested in the model. As a result, a growth model was optimised using separate datasets for temperature, light intensity, photoperiod and nutrients and validated by further integrated testing. The growth model is a stable platform for application in phytoremediation of radionuclides in contaminated water, to be extended in future studies with information of pollutant uptake, pollutant-nutrient interactions and transfer to the biomass.
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- Isabelle Van Dyck
- Biosphere Impact Studies, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Mol, Belgium; Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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- Biosphere Impact Studies, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Mol, Belgium
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- Biosphere Impact Studies, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Mol, Belgium
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- Biosphere Impact Studies, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Mol, Belgium; Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Biosphere Impact Studies, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Mol, Belgium
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- Biosphere Impact Studies, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), Mol, Belgium
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- Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Peeters J, Thas O, Shkedy Z, Kodalci L, Musisi C, Owokotomo OE, Dyczko A, Hamad I, Vangronsveld J, Kleinewietfeld M, Thijs S, Aerts J. Exploring the Microbiome Analysis and Visualization Landscape. Front Bioinform 2021; 1:774631. [PMID: 36303773 PMCID: PMC9580862 DOI: 10.3389/fbinf.2021.774631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/29/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Research on the microbiome has boomed recently, which resulted in a wide range of tools, packages, and algorithms to analyze microbiome data. Here we investigate and map currently existing tools that can be used to perform visual analysis on the microbiome, and associate the including methods, visual representations and data features to the research objectives currently of interest in microbiome research. The analysis is based on a combination of a literature review and workshops including a group of domain experts. Both the reviewing process and workshops are based on domain characterization methods to facilitate communication and collaboration between researchers from different disciplines. We identify several research questions related to microbiomes, and describe how different analysis methods and visualizations help in tackling them.
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- Jannes Peeters
- CENSTAT, Data Science Institute (DSI), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- *Correspondence: Jannes Peeters ,
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- CENSTAT, Data Science Institute (DSI), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- CENSTAT, Data Science Institute (DSI), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- CENSTAT, Data Science Institute (DSI), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- CENSTAT, Data Science Institute (DSI), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- VIB Laboratory of Translational Immunomodulation, VIB Center for Inflammation Research (IRC), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Immunology and Infection, Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- VIB Laboratory of Translational Immunomodulation, VIB Center for Inflammation Research (IRC), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Immunology and Infection, Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Center for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie–Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- VIB Laboratory of Translational Immunomodulation, VIB Center for Inflammation Research (IRC), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Immunology and Infection, Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Center for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- CENSTAT, Data Science Institute (DSI), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Witters K, Dockx Y, Op't Roodt J, Lefebvre W, Vanpoucke C, Plusquin M, Vangronsveld J, Janssen BG, Nawrot TS. Dynamics of skin microvascular blood flow in 4-6-year-old children in association with pre- and postnatal black carbon and particulate air pollution exposure. Environ Int 2021; 157:106799. [PMID: 34358916 DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2021.106799] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2021] [Revised: 07/06/2021] [Accepted: 07/26/2021] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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BACKGROUND A growing body of evidence indicates that cardiovascular health in adulthood, particularly that of the microcirculation, could find its roots during prenatal development. In this study, we investigated the association between pre- and postnatal air pollution exposure on heat-induced skin hyperemia as a dynamic marker of the microvasculature. METHODS In 139 children between the ages of 4 and 6 who are followed longitudinally within the ENVIRONAGE birth cohort, we measured skin perfusion by Laser Doppler probes using the Periflux6000. Residential black carbon (BC), particulate (PM10 and PM2.5) air pollution, and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels were modelled for each participant's home address using a high-resolution spatiotemporal model for multiple time windows. We assessed the association between skin hyperemia and pre- and postnatal air pollution using multiple regression models while adjusting for relevant covariates. RESULTS Residential BC exposure during the whole pregnancy averaged (IQR) 1.42 (1.22-1.58) µg/m3, PM10 18.88 (16.64 - 21.13) µg/m3, PM2.5 13.67 (11.5 - 15.56) µg/m3 and NO2 18.39 (15.52 - 20.31) µg/m3. An IQR increment in BC exposure during the third trimester of pregnancy was associated with an 11.5 % (95% CI: -20.1 to -1.9; p = 0.020) lower skin hyperemia. Similar effect estimates were retrieved for PM10, PM2.5 and NO2 (respectively 13.9 % [95% CI: -21.9 to -3.0; p = 0.003], 17.0 % [95% CI: -26.7 to -6.1; p = 0.004] and 12.7% [95 % CI: -22.2 to -1.9; p = 0.023] lower skin hyperemia). In multipollutant models, PM2.5 showed the strongest inverse association with skin hyperemia. Postnatal exposure to BC, PM10, PM2.5 or NO2, was not associated with skin hyperemia at the age of 4 to 6, and did not alter the previous reported prenatal associations when taken into account. CONCLUSION Our findings support that BC, particulate air pollution, and NO2 exposure, even at low concentrations, during prenatal life, can have long-lasting consequences for the microvasculature. This proposes a role of prenatal air pollution exposures over and beyond postnatal exposure in the microvascular alterations which were persistent into childhood.
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- Katrien Witters
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, Diepenbeek 3590, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, Diepenbeek 3590, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, Diepenbeek 3590, Belgium
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- Health unit, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Mol, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, Diepenbeek 3590, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, Diepenbeek 3590, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, Diepenbeek 3590, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, Diepenbeek 3590, Belgium; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leuven University, Herestraat 49-box706, Leuven 3000, Belgium.
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Rabêlo FHS, Vangronsveld J, Baker AJM, van der Ent A, Alleoni LRF. Are Grasses Really Useful for the Phytoremediation of Potentially Toxic Trace Elements? A Review. Front Plant Sci 2021; 12:778275. [PMID: 34917111 PMCID: PMC8670575 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.778275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 10/19/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The pollution of soil, water, and air by potentially toxic trace elements poses risks to environmental and human health. For this reason, many chemical, physical, and biological processes of remediation have been developed to reduce the (available) trace element concentrations in the environment. Among those technologies, phytoremediation is an environmentally friendly in situ and cost-effective approach to remediate sites with low-to-moderate pollution with trace elements. However, not all species have the potential to be used for phytoremediation of trace element-polluted sites due to their morpho-physiological characteristics and low tolerance to toxicity induced by the trace elements. Grasses are prospective candidates due to their high biomass yields, fast growth, adaptations to infertile soils, and successive shoot regrowth after harvest. A large number of studies evaluating the processes related to the uptake, transport, accumulation, and toxicity of trace elements in grasses assessed for phytoremediation have been conducted. The aim of this review is (i) to synthesize the available information on the mechanisms involved in uptake, transport, accumulation, toxicity, and tolerance to trace elements in grasses; (ii) to identify suitable grasses for trace element phytoextraction, phytostabilization, and phytofiltration; (iii) to describe the main strategies used to improve trace element phytoremediation efficiency by grasses; and (iv) to point out the advantages, disadvantages, and perspectives for the use of grasses for phytoremediation of trace element-polluted soils.
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
- School of BioSciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
- Laboratoire Sols et Environnement, Université de Lorraine – INRAE, Nancy, France
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- Centre for Mined Land Rehabilitation, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Imperato V, Portillo-Estrada M, Saran A, Thoonen A, Kowalkowski Ł, Gawronski SW, Rineau F, Vangronsveld J, Thijs S. Exploring the Diversity and Aromatic Hydrocarbon Degrading Potential of Epiphytic Fungi on Hornbeams from Chronically Polluted Areas. J Fungi (Basel) 2021; 7:jof7110972. [PMID: 34829258 PMCID: PMC8620586 DOI: 10.3390/jof7110972] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2021] [Revised: 11/04/2021] [Accepted: 11/10/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Plants can ‘catch’ and mitigate airborne pollutants and are assisted by fungi inhabiting their leaves. The structure and function of the fungal communities inhabiting the phyllosphere of hornbeam trees growing in two chronically polluted areas, the oilfield of Bóbrka and the city center of Warsaw, were compared to the ones growing in one nature reserve, the Białowieża National Park. Fungi were isolated and characterized both phylogenetically and functionally for their potential role in air pollution mitigation. Both culture-dependent (e.g., enzyme assays and tolerance tests) and culture-independent methods (e.g., ITS and shotgun sequencings) were used. Furthermore, the degradation potential of the fungi was assessed by gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Shotgun sequencing showed that the phyllosphere fungal communities were dominated by fungi belonging to the phylum Ascomycota. Aureobasidium was the only genus detected at the three locations with a relative abundance ≥1.0%. Among the cultivated epiphytic fungi from Bóbrka, Fusarium sporotrichioides AT11, Phoma herbarum AT15, and Lophiostoma sp. AT37 showed in vitro aromatic hydrocarbon degradation potential with laccase activities of 1.24, 3.62, and 7.2 μU L−1, respectively, and peroxidase enzymes with activities of 3.46, 2.28, and 7.49 μU L−1, respectively. Furthermore, Fusarium sporotrichioides AT11 and Phoma herbarum AT15 tolerated exposure to airborne naphthalene and benzene. Lophiostoma sp. AT37 was the most tolerant to exposure to these pollutants, in line with being the best potential aromatic hydrocarbon degrader isolated in this study.
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- Valeria Imperato
- Department of Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, BE3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (A.T.); (Ł.K.); (F.R.); (J.V.); (S.T.)
- Correspondence:
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- Plants and Ecosystems (PLECO), Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, BE2610 Wilrijk, Belgium;
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- AIC-CONICET, Scientific Research Agency, Santa Rosa 6360, La Pampa, Argentina;
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, BE3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (A.T.); (Ł.K.); (F.R.); (J.V.); (S.T.)
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, BE3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (A.T.); (Ł.K.); (F.R.); (J.V.); (S.T.)
- Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland;
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- Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland;
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, BE3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (A.T.); (Ł.K.); (F.R.); (J.V.); (S.T.)
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, BE3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (A.T.); (Ł.K.); (F.R.); (J.V.); (S.T.)
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 20-400 Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, BE3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (A.T.); (Ł.K.); (F.R.); (J.V.); (S.T.)
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Rabêlo FHS, Gaziola SA, Rossi ML, Silveira NM, Wójcik M, Bajguz A, Piotrowska-Niczyporuk A, Lavres J, Linhares FS, Azevedo RA, Vangronsveld J, Alleoni LRF. Unraveling the mechanisms controlling Cd accumulation and Cd-tolerance in Brachiaria decumbens and Panicum maximum under summer and winter weather conditions. Physiol Plant 2021; 173:20-44. [PMID: 32602985 DOI: 10.1111/ppl.13160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2020] [Revised: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 06/26/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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We evaluated the mechanisms that control Cd accumulation and distribution, and the mechanisms that protect the photosynthetic apparatus of Brachiaria decumbens Stapf. cv. Basilisk and Panicum maximum Jacq. cv. Massai from Cd-induced oxidative stress, as well as the effects of simulated summer or winter conditions on these mechanisms. Both grasses were grown in unpolluted and Cd-polluted Oxisol (0.63 and 3.6 mg Cd kg-1 soil, respectively) at summer and winter conditions. Grasses grown in the Cd-polluted Oxisol presented higher Cd concentration in their tissues in the winter conditions, but the shoot biomass production of both grasses was not affected by the experimental conditions. Cadmium was more accumulated in the root apoplast than the root symplast, contributing to increase the diameter and cell layers of the cambial region of both grasses. Roots of B. decumbens were more susceptible to disturbed nutrients uptake and nitrogen metabolism than roots of P. maximum. Both grasses translocated high amounts of Cd to their shoots resulting in oxidative stress. Oxidative stress in the leaves of both grasses was higher in summer than winter, but only in P. maximum superoxide dismutase (SOD) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) activities were increased. However, CO2 assimilation was not affected due to the protection provided by reduced glutathione (GSH) and phytochelatins (PCs) that were more synthesized in shoots than roots. In summary, the root apoplast was not sufficiently effective to prevent Cd translocation from roots to shoot, but GSH and PCs provided good protection for the photosynthetic apparatus of both grasses.
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- Flávio Henrique Silveira Rabêlo
- College of Agriculture Luiz de Queiroz, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil
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- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Faculty of Biology and Chemistry, University of Bialystok, Białystok, Poland
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- Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Piracicaba, Brazil
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Amaral Dos Reis R, Hendrix S, Mourato MP, Louro Martins L, Vangronsveld J, Cuypers A. Efficient regulation of copper homeostasis underlies accession-specific sensitivities to excess copper and cadmium in roots of Arabidopsis thaliana. J Plant Physiol 2021; 261:153434. [PMID: 34020275 DOI: 10.1016/j.jplph.2021.153434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2020] [Revised: 04/13/2021] [Accepted: 04/26/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The commonly used Arabidopsis thaliana natural accessions Columbia (Col-0) and Wassilewskija (Ws) are known to differ in their metal sensitivity, with Col-0 being more sensitive to copper (Cu) and cadmium (Cd) than Ws. As both Cu and Cd are known to affect Cu homeostasis, it was investigated whether this process is part of an accession-specific mechanism underlying their difference in metal sensitivity. As roots are the first contact point during metal exposure, responses were compared between roots of both accessions of hydroponically grown plants exposed to excess Cu or Cd for 24 and 72 h. Root Cu levels increased in both accessions under Cu and Cd exposure. However, under Cu exposure, the downregulation of Cu transporter (COPT) genes in combination with a more pronounced upregulation of metallothionein gene MT2b indicated that Ws plants coped better with the elevated Cu concentrations. The Cd-induced disturbance in Cu homeostasis was more efficiently counteracted in roots of Ws plants than in Col-0 plants. This was indicated by a higher upregulation of the SPL7-mediated pathway, crucial in the regulation of the Cu homeostasis response. In conclusion, maintaining the Cu homeostasis response in roots is key to accession-specific differences in Cu and Cd sensitivity.
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- Rafaela Amaral Dos Reis
- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium; Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- LEAF, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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Navazas A, Thijs S, Feito I, Vangronsveld J, Peláez AI, Cuypers A, González A. Arsenate-reducing bacteria affect As accumulation and tolerance in Salix atrocinerea. Sci Total Environ 2021; 769:144648. [PMID: 33736260 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.144648] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Revised: 12/18/2020] [Accepted: 12/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Arsenic (As)-reducing bacteria are able to influence As-speciation and, in this way, change As bio-availability. In consequence, this has an impact on As uptake by plants growing on polluted soil and on the effectiveness of the phytoremediation process. To be able to efficiently utilize these bacteria for As-phytoremediation in the field, a better understanding of the plant-bacterial interactions involved in As-tolerance or toxicity is needed. In this work, seedlings of a clone of Salix atrocinerea derived from a specimen naturally growing on an As-polluted brownfield were grown under gnotobiotic conditions exposed to As, and in the presence or absence of two of its field-associated and in vitro characterized plant growth-promoting (PGP) bacteria. The inoculation with Pantoea sp., induced a moderate reduction of AsV to AsIII in the exposure medium that, together with a coordinated plant response of As uptake, chelation and sequestration, increased As accumulation in roots; which is reflected into a higher phytostabilization. However, inoculation with Rhodococcus erythropolis due to a higher disproportionate reduction of AsV to AsIII in the medium caused less As accumulation in roots that non-bioaugmented plants and despite the lower As content, the concentrations of AsIII present in the medium and the damage suffered in roots and leaves, indicated that As tolerance mechanisms (such as prevention of AsIII uptake and efflux) did not occur in time to avoid physical disturbance and plants growth reduction. Interestingly, by two different metabolic pathways -coordinated by different key transporters mediating As uptake, tolerance, distribution and vacuolar accumulation at the roots- both bacteria limited As accumulation in Salix shoots. Our results provide for the first time a detailed insight in the plant-bacterial responses and physiological changes contributing to As tolerance in S. atrocinerea, that will facilitate the design of effective strategies for exploitation of plant-associated microorganisms for phytoremediation.
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- Alejandro Navazas
- Department of Organisms and Systems Biology, Area of Plant Physiology-IUBA, University of Oviedo, Catedrático Rodrigo Uría s/n, 33006 Oviedo, Spain; Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Agri-Food Research and Development Service, Forestry Program, La Mata s/n, 33825 Grado, Spain
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Functional Biology - Area of Microbiology-IUBA, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Organisms and Systems Biology, Area of Plant Physiology-IUBA, University of Oviedo, Catedrático Rodrigo Uría s/n, 33006 Oviedo, Spain.
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Oleńska E, Małek W, Kotowska U, Wydrych J, Polińska W, Swiecicka I, Thijs S, Vangronsveld J. Exopolysaccharide Carbohydrate Structure and Biofilm Formation by Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii Strains Inhabiting Nodules of Trifoliumrepens Growing on an Old Zn-Pb-Cd-Polluted Waste Heap Area. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22062808. [PMID: 33802057 PMCID: PMC7998805 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22062808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2021] [Revised: 03/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Heavy metals polluting the 100-year-old waste heap in Bolesław (Poland) are acting as a natural selection factor and may contribute to adaptations of organisms living in this area, including Trifolium repens and its root nodule microsymbionts—rhizobia. Exopolysaccharides (EPS), exuded extracellularly and associated with bacterial cell walls, possess variable structures depending on environmental conditions; they can bind metals and are involved in biofilm formation. In order to examine the effects of long-term exposure to metal pollution on EPS structure and biofilm formation of rhizobia, Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii strains originating from the waste heap area and a non-polluted reference site were investigated for the characteristics of the sugar fraction of their EPS using gas chromatography mass-spectrometry and also for biofilm formation and structural characteristics using confocal laser scanning microscopy under control conditions as well as when exposed to toxic concentrations of zinc, lead, and cadmium. Significant differences in EPS structure, biofilm thickness, and ratio of living/dead bacteria in the biofilm were found between strains originating from the waste heap and from the reference site, both without exposure to metals and under metal exposure. Received results indicate that studied rhizobia can be assumed as potentially useful in remediation processes.
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- Ewa Oleńska
- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Białystok, 1J Ciołkowski, 15-245 Białystok, Poland;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +48-8-5738-8366
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 19 Akademicka, 20-033 Lublin, Poland;
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- Division of Environmental Chemistry, Department of Analytic and Inorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Białystok, 1K Ciołkowski, 15-245 Białystok, Poland;
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- Department of Functional Anatomy and Cytobiology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 19 Akademicka, 20-033 Lublin, Poland;
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- Doctoral School of Exact and Natural Sciences, University of Białystok, 1K Ciołkowski, 15-245 Białystok, Poland;
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- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Białystok, 1J Ciołkowski, 15-245 Białystok, Poland;
- Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Faculty of Biology, University of Białystok, 1J Ciołkowski, 15-245 Białystok, Poland
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (S.T.); (J.V.)
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (S.T.); (J.V.)
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, 19 Akademicka, 20-033 Lublin, Poland
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Stevens V, Thijs S, Vangronsveld J. Diversity and plant growth-promoting potential of (un)culturable bacteria in the Hedera helix phylloplane. BMC Microbiol 2021; 21:66. [PMID: 33639859 PMCID: PMC7912551 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-021-02119-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 02/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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Background A diverse community of microbes naturally exists on the phylloplane, the surface of leaves. It is one of the most prevalent microbial habitats on earth and bacteria are the most abundant members, living in communities that are highly dynamic. Today, one of the key challenges for microbiologists is to develop strategies to culture the vast diversity of microorganisms that have been detected in metagenomic surveys. Results We isolated bacteria from the phylloplane of Hedera helix (common ivy), a widespread evergreen, using five growth media: Luria–Bertani (LB), LB01, yeast extract–mannitol (YMA), yeast extract–flour (YFlour), and YEx. We also included a comparison with the uncultured phylloplane, which we showed to be dominated by Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, and Firmicutes. Inter-sample (beta) diversity shifted from LB and LB01 containing the highest amount of resources to YEx, YMA, and YFlour which are more selective. All growth media equally favoured Actinobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria, whereas Bacteroidetes could only be found on LB01, YEx, and YMA. LB and LB01 favoured Firmicutes and YFlour was most selective for Betaproteobacteria. At the genus level, LB favoured the growth of Bacillus and Stenotrophomonas, while YFlour was most selective for Burkholderia and Curtobacterium. The in vitro plant growth promotion (PGP) profile of 200 isolates obtained in this study indicates that previously uncultured bacteria from the phylloplane may have potential applications in phytoremediation and other plant-based biotechnologies. Conclusions This study gives first insights into the total bacterial community of the H. helix phylloplane, including an evaluation of its culturability using five different growth media. We further provide a collection of 200 bacterial isolates underrepresented in current databases, including the characterization of PGP profiles. Here we highlight the potential of simple strategies to obtain higher microbial diversity from environmental samples and the use of high-throughput sequencing to guide isolate selection from a variety of growth media. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12866-021-02119-z.
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- Vincent Stevens
- Center for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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- Center for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Center for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium. .,Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland.
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Massot F, Gkorezis P, Van Hamme J, Marino D, Trifunovic BS, Vukovic G, d'Haen J, Pintelon I, Giulietti AM, Merini L, Vangronsveld J, Thijs S. Isolation, Biochemical and Genomic Characterization of Glyphosate Tolerant Bacteria to Perform Microbe-Assisted Phytoremediation. Front Microbiol 2021; 11:598507. [PMID: 33519737 PMCID: PMC7840833 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.598507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2020] [Accepted: 12/17/2020] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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The large-scale use of the herbicide glyphosate leads to growing ecotoxicological and human health concerns. Microbe-assisted phytoremediation arises as a good option to remove, contain, or degrade glyphosate from soils and waterbodies, and thus avoid further spreading to non-target areas. To achieve this, availability of plant-colonizing, glyphosate-tolerant and -degrading strains is required and at the same time, it must be linked to plant-microorganism interaction studies focusing on a substantive ability to colonize the roots and degrade or transform the herbicide. In this work, we isolated bacteria from a chronically glyphosate-exposed site in Argentina, evaluated their glyphosate tolerance using the minimum inhibitory concentration assay, their in vitro degradation potential, their plant growth-promotion traits, and performed whole genome sequencing to gain insight into the application of a phytoremediation strategy to remediate glyphosate contaminated agronomic soils. Twenty-four soil and root-associated bacterial strains were isolated. Sixteen could grow using glyphosate as the sole source of phosphorous. As shown in MIC assay, some strains tolerated up to 10000 mg kg–1 of glyphosate. Most of them also demonstrated a diverse spectrum of in vitro plant growth-promotion traits, confirmed in their genome sequences. Two representative isolates were studied for their root colonization. An isolate of Ochrobactrum haematophilum exhibited different colonization patterns in the rhizoplane compared to an isolate of Rhizobium sp. Both strains were able to metabolize almost 50% of the original glyphosate concentration of 50 mg l–1 in 9 days. In a microcosms experiment with Lotus corniculatus L, O. haematophilum performed better than Rhizobium, with 97% of glyphosate transformed after 20 days. The results suggest that L. corniculatus in combination with to O. haematophilum can be adopted for phytoremediation of glyphosate on agricultural soils. An effective strategy is presented of linking the experimental data from the isolation of tolerant bacteria with performing plant-bacteria interaction tests to demonstrate positive effects on the removal of glyphosate from soils.
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- Francisco Massot
- Cátedra de Biotecnología, Departamento de Microbiología, Inmunología, Biotecnología y Genética, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Junín, Argentina.,Instituto de Nanobiotecnología (NANOBIOTEC), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Junín, Argentina
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada
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- Centro de Investigaciones del Medio Ambiente, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional de la Plata (UNLP), La Plata, Argentina
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- Department of Phytomedicine, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Institute for Materials Research (IMO-IMEC), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Cell Biology and Histology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Cátedra de Biotecnología, Departamento de Microbiología, Inmunología, Biotecnología y Genética, Facultad de Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Junín, Argentina.,Instituto de Nanobiotecnología (NANOBIOTEC), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos Aires, Junín, Argentina
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.,Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Bijnens K, Thijs S, Leynen N, Stevens V, McAmmond B, Van Hamme J, Vangronsveld J, Artois T, Smeets K. Differential effect of silver nanoparticles on the microbiome of adult and developing planaria. Aquat Toxicol 2021; 230:105672. [PMID: 33227667 DOI: 10.1016/j.aquatox.2020.105672] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2020] [Revised: 10/04/2020] [Accepted: 10/27/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are widely incorporated in household, consumer and medical products. Their unintentional release via wastewaters raises concerns on their environmental impact, particularly for aquatic organisms and their associated bacterial communities. It is known that the microbiome plays an important role in its host's health and physiology, e.g. by producing essential nutrients and providing protection against pathogens. A thorough understanding of the effects of AgNPs on bacterial communities and on their interactions with the host is crucial to fully assess AgNP toxicity on aquatic organisms. Our results indicate that the microbiome of the invertebrate Schmidtea mediterranea, a freshwater planarian, is affected by AgNP exposure at the tested 10 μg/ml concentration. Using targeted amplification of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene V3-V4 region, two independent experiments on the microbiomes of adult worms revealed a consistent decrease in Betaproteobacteriales after AgNP exposure, mainly attributed to a decrease in Curvibacter and Undibacterium. Although developing tissues and organisms are known to be more sensitive to toxic compounds, three independent experiments in regenerating worms showed a less pronounced effect of AgNP exposure on the microbiome, possibly because underlying bacterial community changes during development mask the AgNP induced effect. The presence of a polyvinyl-pyrrolidone (PVP) coating did not significantly alter the outcome of the experiments compared to those with uncoated particles. The observed variation between the different experiments underlines the highly variable nature of microbiomes and emphasises the need to repeat microbiome experiments, within and between physiological states of the animal.
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- Karolien Bijnens
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Zoology, Biodiversity and Toxicology, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Zoology, Biodiversity and Toxicology, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Environmental Biology, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium; Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Skłodowska-Curie University, Lublin, Poland
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Zoology, Biodiversity and Toxicology, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Zoology, Biodiversity and Toxicology, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium.
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Gutsch A, Hendrix S, Guerriero G, Renaut J, Lutts S, Alseekh S, Fernie AR, Hausman JF, Vangronsveld J, Cuypers A, Sergeant K. Long-Term Cd Exposure Alters the Metabolite Profile in Stem Tissue of Medicago sativa. Cells 2020; 9:E2707. [PMID: 33348837 PMCID: PMC7765984 DOI: 10.3390/cells9122707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2020] [Revised: 12/14/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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As a common pollutant, cadmium (Cd) is one of the most toxic heavy metals accumulating in agricultural soils through anthropogenic activities. The uptake of Cd by plants is the main entry route into the human food chain, whilst in plants it elicits oxidative stress by unbalancing the cellular redox status. Medicago sativa was subjected to chronic Cd stress for five months. Targeted and untargeted metabolic analyses were performed. Long-term Cd exposure altered the amino acid composition with levels of asparagine, histidine and proline decreasing in stems but increasing in leaves. This suggests tissue-specific metabolic stress responses, which are often not considered in environmental studies focused on leaves. In stem tissue, profiles of secondary metabolites were clearly separated between control and Cd-exposed plants. Fifty-one secondary metabolites were identified that changed significantly upon Cd exposure, of which the majority are (iso)flavonoid conjugates. Cadmium exposure stimulated the phenylpropanoid pathway that led to the accumulation of secondary metabolites in stems rather than cell wall lignification. Those metabolites are antioxidants mitigating oxidative stress and preventing cellular damage. By an adequate adjustment of its metabolic composition, M. sativa reaches a new steady state, which enables the plant to acclimate under chronic Cd stress.
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- Annelie Gutsch
- GreenTech Innovation Center, Environmental Research and Innovation Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, 5, Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; (A.G.); (G.G.); (J.R.); (J.-F.H.)
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Campus Diepenbeek, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (S.H.); (J.V.); (A.C.)
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Campus Diepenbeek, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (S.H.); (J.V.); (A.C.)
- Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES), University of Bonn, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 144, 53113 Bonn, Germany
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- GreenTech Innovation Center, Environmental Research and Innovation Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, 5, Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; (A.G.); (G.G.); (J.R.); (J.-F.H.)
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- GreenTech Innovation Center, Environmental Research and Innovation Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, 5, Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; (A.G.); (G.G.); (J.R.); (J.-F.H.)
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- Groupe de Recherche en Physiologie Végétale, Earth and Life Institute—Agronomy, Université Catholique de Louvain, 5, Place Croix du Sud, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Plant Molecular Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany; (S.A.); (A.R.F.)
- Centre of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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- Max-Planck-Institute of Plant Molecular Physiology, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Potsdam, Germany; (S.A.); (A.R.F.)
- Centre of Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology, 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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- GreenTech Innovation Center, Environmental Research and Innovation Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, 5, Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; (A.G.); (G.G.); (J.R.); (J.-F.H.)
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Campus Diepenbeek, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (S.H.); (J.V.); (A.C.)
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Campus Diepenbeek, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (S.H.); (J.V.); (A.C.)
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- GreenTech Innovation Center, Environmental Research and Innovation Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, 5, Avenue des Hauts-Fourneaux, 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg; (A.G.); (G.G.); (J.R.); (J.-F.H.)
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Oleńska E, Małek W, Wójcik M, Swiecicka I, Thijs S, Vangronsveld J. Beneficial features of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria for improving plant growth and health in challenging conditions: A methodical review. Sci Total Environ 2020; 743:140682. [PMID: 32758827 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 37.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Revised: 05/31/2020] [Accepted: 06/30/2020] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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New eco-friendly approaches are required to improve plant biomass production. Beneficial plant growth-promoting (PGP) bacteria may be exploited as excellent and efficient biotechnological tools to improve plant growth in various - including stressful - environments. We present an overview of bacterial mechanisms which contribute to plant health, growth, and development. Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) can interact with plants directly by increasing the availability of essential nutrients (e.g. nitrogen, phosphorus, iron), production and regulation of compounds involved in plant growth (e.g. phytohormones), and stress hormonal status (e.g. ethylene levels by ACC-deaminase). They can also indirectly affect plants by protecting them against diseases via competition with pathogens for highly limited nutrients, biocontrol of pathogens through production of aseptic-activity compounds, synthesis of fungal cell wall lysing enzymes, and induction of systemic responses in host plants. The potential of PGPR to facilitate plant growth is of fundamental importance, especially in case of abiotic stress, where bacteria can support plant fitness, stress tolerance, and/or even assist in remediation of pollutants. Providing additional evidence and better understanding of bacterial traits underlying plant growth-promotion can inspire and stir up the development of innovative solutions exploiting PGPR in times of highly variable environmental and climatological conditions.
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- Ewa Oleńska
- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Białystok, Ciołkowskiego 1J, 15-245 Białystok, Poland.
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- Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland.
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- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland.
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- Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Biology, University of Białystok, Ciołkowskiego 1J, 15-245 Białystok, Poland.
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- Faculty of Sciences, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan D, B-3590, Belgium.
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- Faculty of Sciences, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan D, B-3590, Belgium.
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Witters K, Plusquin M, Slenders E, Aslam I, Ameloot M, Roeffaers MBJ, Vangronsveld J, Nawrot TS, Bové H. Monitoring indoor exposure to combustion-derived particles using plants. Environ Pollut 2020; 266:115261. [PMID: 32745902 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2020.115261] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2020] [Revised: 07/09/2020] [Accepted: 07/13/2020] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Indoor plants can be used to monitor atmospheric particulates. Here, we report the label-free detection of combustion-derived particles (CDPs) on plants as a monitoring tool for indoor pollution. First, we measured the indoor CDP deposition on Atlantic ivy leaves (Hedera hibernica) using two-photon femtosecond microscopy. Subsequently, to prove its effectiveness for using it as a monitoring tool, ivy plants were placed near five different indoor sources. CDP particle area and number were used as output metrics. CDP values ranged between a median particle area of 0.45 × 102 to 1.35 × 104 μm2, and a median particle number of 0.10 × 102 to 1.42 × 10³ particles for the indoor sources: control (greenhouse) < milling machine < indoor smokers < wood stove < gas stove < laser printer. Our findings demonstrate that Atlantic ivy, combined with label-free detection, can be effectively used in indoor atmospheric monitoring studies.
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- Katrien Witters
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Biomedical Research Institute, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building C, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Leuven University, Celestijnenlaan 200f-box 2461, 3001, Leuven, Belgium
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- Biomedical Research Institute, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building C, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Leuven University, Celestijnenlaan 200f-box 2461, 3001, Leuven, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium; Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leuven University, Herestraat 49 box 706, 3000, Leuven, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium; Biomedical Research Institute, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building C, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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Vanderkelen I, Zscheischler J, Gudmundsson L, Keuler K, Rineau F, Beenaerts N, Vangronsveld J, Vicca S, Thiery W. Correction to: A novel method for assessing climate change impacts in ecotron experiments. Int J Biometeorol 2020; 64:1729. [PMID: 32748042 PMCID: PMC7645531 DOI: 10.1007/s00484-020-01973-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2020] [Revised: 07/20/2020] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The article was published bearing a typographical error to the second author name listed. The author group regret the error and the name should be referenced and credited as Jakob Zscheischler and not the former.
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- Inne Vanderkelen
- Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
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- Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Meteorology, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
- Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Vanderkelen I, Zscheischler J, Gudmundsson L, Keuler K, Rineau F, Beenaerts N, Vangronsveld J, Vicca S, Thiery W. A novel method for assessing climate change impacts in ecotron experiments. Int J Biometeorol 2020; 64:1709-1727. [PMID: 32671669 PMCID: PMC7481170 DOI: 10.1007/s00484-020-01951-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/27/2020] [Accepted: 06/04/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Ecotron facilities allow accurate control of many environmental variables coupled with extensive monitoring of ecosystem processes. They therefore require multivariate perturbation of climate variables, close to what is observed in the field and projections for the future. Here, we present a new method for creating realistic climate forcing for manipulation experiments and apply it to the UHasselt Ecotron experiment. The new methodology uses data derived from the best available regional climate model projection and consists of generating climate forcing along a gradient representative of increasingly high global mean air temperature anomalies. We first identified the best-performing regional climate model simulation for the ecotron site from the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment in the European domain (EURO-CORDEX) ensemble based on two criteria: (i) highest skill compared to observations from a nearby weather station and (ii) representativeness of the multi-model mean in future projections. The time window is subsequently selected from the model projection for each ecotron unit based on the global mean air temperature of the driving global climate model. The ecotron units are forced with 3-hourly output from the projections of the 5-year period in which the global mean air temperature crosses the predefined values. With the new approach, Ecotron facilities become able to assess ecosystem responses on changing climatic conditions, while accounting for the co-variation between climatic variables and their projection in variability, well representing possible compound events. The presented methodology can also be applied to other manipulation experiments, aiming at investigating ecosystem responses to realistic future climate change.
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- Inne Vanderkelen
- Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium.
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- Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Meteorology, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus, Germany
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, UHasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
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- Department of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
- Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Fernández-Llamosas H, Ibero J, Thijs S, Imperato V, Vangronsveld J, Díaz E, Carmona M. Enhancing the Rice Seedlings Growth Promotion Abilities of Azoarcus sp. CIB by Heterologous Expression of ACC Deaminase to Improve Performance of Plants Exposed to Cadmium Stress. Microorganisms 2020; 8:E1453. [PMID: 32971998 PMCID: PMC7564240 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms8091453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2020] [Revised: 09/18/2020] [Accepted: 09/20/2020] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Environmental pollutants can generate stress in plants causing increased ethylene production that leads to the inhibition of plant growth. Ethylene production by the stressed plant may be lowered by Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria (PGPB) that metabolizes the immediate precursor of ethylene 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC). Thus, engineering PGPB with ACC deaminase activity can be a promising alternative to mitigate the harmful effects of pollutants and thus enhance plant production. Here we show that the aromatics-degrading and metal-resistant Azoarcus sp. CIB behaves as a PGP-bacterium when colonizing rice as an endophyte, showing a 30% increment in plant weight compared to non-inoculated plants. The cloning and expression of an acdS gene led to a recombinant strain, Azoarcus sp. CIB (pSEVA237acdS), possessing significant ACC deaminase activity (6716 nmol mg-1 h-1), constituting the first PGPB of the Rhodocyclaceae family equipped with this PGP trait. The recombinant CIB strain acquired the ability to protect inoculated rice plants from the stress induced by cadmium (Cd) exposure and to increase the Cd concentration in rice seedlings. The observed decrease of the levels of reactive oxygen species levels in rice roots confirms such a protective effect. The broad-host-range pSEVA237acdS plasmid paves the way to engineer PGPB with ACC deaminase activity to improve the growth of plants that might face stress conditions.
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- Helga Fernández-Llamosas
- Microbial and Plant Biotechnology Department, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas-CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain; (H.F.-L.); (J.I.); (E.D.)
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- Microbial and Plant Biotechnology Department, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas-CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain; (H.F.-L.); (J.I.); (E.D.)
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- Department of Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (S.T.); (V.I.); (J.V.)
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- Department of Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (S.T.); (V.I.); (J.V.)
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- Department of Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium; (S.T.); (V.I.); (J.V.)
- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Skłodowska-Curie University, 20-0033 Lublin, Poland
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- Microbial and Plant Biotechnology Department, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas-CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain; (H.F.-L.); (J.I.); (E.D.)
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- Microbial and Plant Biotechnology Department, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas-CSIC, Ramiro de Maeztu 9, 28040 Madrid, Spain; (H.F.-L.); (J.I.); (E.D.)
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Sillen WMA, Thijs S, Abbamondi GR, De La Torre Roche R, Weyens N, White JC, Vangronsveld J. Nanoparticle treatment of maize analyzed through the metatranscriptome: compromised nitrogen cycling, possible phytopathogen selection, and plant hormesis. Microbiome 2020; 8:127. [PMID: 32907632 PMCID: PMC7488162 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-020-00904-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2020] [Accepted: 08/03/2020] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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BACKGROUND The beneficial use of nanoparticle silver or nanosilver may be confounded when its potent antimicrobial properties impact non-target members of natural microbiomes such as those present in soil or the plant rhizosphere. Agricultural soils are a likely sink for nanosilver due to its presence in agrochemicals and land-applied biosolids, but a complete assessment of nanosilver's effects on this environment is lacking because the impact on the natural soil microbiome is not known. In a study assessing the use of nanosilver for phytopathogen control with maize, we analyzed the metatranscriptome of the maize rhizosphere and observed multiple unintended effects of exposure to 100 mg kg-1 nanosilver in soil during a growth period of 117 days. RESULTS We found several unintended effects of nanosilver which could interfere with agricultural systems in the long term. Firstly, the archaea community was negatively impacted with a more than 30% decrease in relative abundance, and as such, their involvement in nitrogen cycling and specifically, nitrification, was compromised. Secondly, certain potentially phytopathogenic fungal groups showed significantly increased abundances, possibly due to the negative effects of nanosilver on bacteria exerting natural biocontrol against these fungi as indicated by negative interactions in a network analysis. Up to 5-fold increases in relative abundance have been observed for certain possibly phytopathogenic fungal genera. Lastly, nanosilver exposure also caused a direct physiological impact on maize as illustrated by increased transcript abundance of aquaporin and phytohormone genes, overall resulting in a stress level with the potential to yield hormetically stimulated plant root growth. CONCLUSIONS This study indicates the occurrence of significant unintended effects of nanosilver use on corn, which could turn out to be negative to crop productivity and ecosystem health in the long term. We therefore highlight the need to include the microbiome when assessing the risk associated with nano-enabled agriculture. Video Abstract.
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- Wouter M. A. Sillen
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Institute of Biomolecular Chemistry, National Research Council of Italy, Via Campi Flegrei 34, Pozzuoli, 80078 Napoli, Italy
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- Department Analytical Chemistry, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 123 Huntington Street, New Haven, CT USA
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department Analytical Chemistry, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, 123 Huntington Street, New Haven, CT USA
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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Hendrix S, Jozefczak M, Wójcik M, Deckers J, Vangronsveld J, Cuypers A. Glutathione: A key player in metal chelation, nutrient homeostasis, cell cycle regulation and the DNA damage response in cadmium-exposed Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol Biochem 2020; 154:498-507. [PMID: 32673998 DOI: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2019] [Revised: 04/09/2020] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Glutathione (GSH) is an important player in plant responses to cadmium (Cd) through its dual function as an antioxidant and precursor for metal-chelating phytochelatins (PCs). In addition, it was shown to be involved in cell cycle regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana roots, but its involvement in this process in leaves is largely unknown and has never been evaluated in Cd-exposed plants. This study aimed to elucidate the role of GSH in leaf growth and development, metal chelation, nutrient homeostasis and cell cycle regulation in A. thaliana plants upon prolonged Cd exposure. Responses were compared between wild-type (WT) plants and three GSH-deficient mutants. Our results indicate that PC production remains important in plants exposed to Cd for an extended duration. Furthermore, an important role for GSH in regulating nutrient homeostasis in Cd-exposed plants was revealed. Cell cycle analysis demonstrated that negative effects of Cd exposure on cell division and endoreplication were more pronounced in leaves of the GSH-deficient cadmium-sensitive 2-1 (cad2-1) mutant in comparison to the WT, indicating the involvement of GSH in cell cycle regulation. Finally, a crucial role for GSH in transcriptional activation of the Cd-induced DNA damage response (DDR) was revealed, as the Cd-induced upregulation of DDR-related genes was either less pronounced or completely abolished in leaves of the GSH-deficient mutants.
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- Sophie Hendrix
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033, Lublin, Poland
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Saran A, Imperato V, Fernandez L, Vannucchi F, Steffanie NM, d'Haen J, Merini LJ, Vangronsveld J, Thijs S. Bioaugmentation with PGP-trace element tolerant bacterial consortia affects Pb uptake by Helianthus annuus grown on trace element polluted military soils. Int J Phytoremediation 2020; 23:202-211. [PMID: 32795191 DOI: 10.1080/15226514.2020.1805408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In this study, we sought to compose consortia of plant growth-promoting (PGP) and trace element tolerant bacteria, to improve plant growth and inhibit uptake and translocation of trace elements, eventually allowing the cultivation of profitmaking crops on trace elements polluted soils, reducing the risks of entrance of these elements into the food chain. Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) was grown on two polluted military soils (MS1 and MS2) in greenhouse microcosms and inoculated with three different bacterial consortia (C1, C2, C3). Growth and physiological status of the plants were unaffected during the experiment with the inoculation. After 2 months, plants were harvested. Consortium C2 and C3 decreased Pb shoot bioaccumulation by respectively 80-85% when plants were grown in the MS1 and even to concentrations below detection limit in plants grown in MS2. Differences in uptake and (sub)cellular localization of Pb and Cd in selected bacterial isolates were investigated in vitro by TEM-EDX. Pb absorption was observed by Bacillus wiedmanni ST29 and Bacillus paramycoides ST9 cultures. While adsorption at the bacterial cell wall was observed by Bacillus paramycoides ST9 and retention in the extracellular matrix by Cellulosimicrobium cellulans ST54.
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- A Saran
- EEA Anguil INTA-CONICET, La Pampa, Argentina
- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- EEA Anguil INTA-CONICET, La Pampa, Argentina
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- Institute of Life Science, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy
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- Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Institute for Material Research (IMO), Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Division IMOMEC, IMEC, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- EEA Anguil INTA-CONICET, La Pampa, Argentina
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology and Biophysics, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Rabêlo FHS, Borgo L, Merloti LF, Pylro VS, Navarrete AA, Mano RH, Thijs S, Vangronsveld J, Alleoni LRF. Effects of winter and summer conditions on Cd fractionation and bioavailability, bacterial communities and Cd phytoextraction potential of Brachiaria decumbens and Panicum maximum grown in a tropical soil. Sci Total Environ 2020; 728:138885. [PMID: 32361355 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2020] [Revised: 04/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/20/2020] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The interactions between soil properties, microorganisms, plant species and climate affect cadmium (Cd) availability in tropical soils. In this study, we investigated the effects of simulated summer and winter conditions on Cd fractionation and bacterial communities in Oxisols and on growth of two high biomass production-grasses (Brachiaria decumbens and Panicum maximum) that were evaluated for their Cd phytoextraction potential. We also assessed how these interactions could influence the availability of Cd and its possible phytoextraction by these grasses. The Cd fraction bound to carbonates was higher in the winter conditions, while Cd bound to Fe- and Mn oxides was higher in the summer conditions, which resulted in a higher Cd availability in winter compared to summer conditions. B. decumbens and P. maximum took up more Cd when grown in the winter conditions, but their biomasses were not affected by the higher Cd uptake. The occurrence and relative abundance of bacterial taxa in the bare soil differed from the soils cultivated with grasses, where the Gammaproteobacteria predominated. However, no positive correlations were observed between the rhizosphere bacterial community in the cultivated soils and Cd availability, irrespective of the season conditions.
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- Flávio Henrique Silveira Rabêlo
- University of São Paulo (USP), Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ), Piracicaba, Brazil; Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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- University of São Paulo (USP), Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ), Piracicaba, Brazil; Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- University of São Paulo (USP), Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ), Piracicaba, Brazil
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- University of São Paulo (USP), Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ), Piracicaba, Brazil
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- Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Hasselt University, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Diepenbeek, Belgium; Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Lublin, Poland
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Thiruvallur Eachambadi R, Bonné R, Cornelissen R, Hidalgo‐Martinez S, Vangronsveld J, Meysman FJR, Valcke R, Cleuren B, Manca JV. An Ordered and Fail‐Safe Electrical Network in Cable Bacteria. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2020; 4:e2000006. [DOI: 10.1002/adbi.202000006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2020] [Revised: 04/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- UHasselt – X‐LABFaculty of SciencesHasselt University Agoralaan – Building D Diepenbeek B‐3590 Belgium
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- UHasselt – X‐LABFaculty of SciencesHasselt University Agoralaan – Building D Diepenbeek B‐3590 Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental SciencesHasselt University Agoralaan – Building D Diepenbeek B‐3590 Belgium
- Department of Plant PhysiologyFaculty of Biology and BiotechnologyMaria Curie‐Sklodowska University Lublin 20‐033 Poland
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- Department of BiotechnologyDelft University of Technology Van der Maasweg 9 Delft 2629 HZ The Netherlands
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- UHasselt – Molecular and Physical Plant PhysiologyFaculty of SciencesAgoralaan – Building DHasselt University Diepenbeek B‐3590 Belgium
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- UHasselt – Theory LabFaculty of Sciences Agoralaan – Building D Diepenbeek B‐3590 Belgium
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- UHasselt – X‐LABFaculty of SciencesHasselt University Agoralaan – Building D Diepenbeek B‐3590 Belgium
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Hendrix S, Iven V, Eekhout T, Huybrechts M, Pecqueur I, Horemans N, Keunen E, De Veylder L, Vangronsveld J, Cuypers A. Suppressor of Gamma Response 1 Modulates the DNA Damage Response and Oxidative Stress Response in Leaves of Cadmium-Exposed Arabidopsis thaliana. Front Plant Sci 2020; 11:366. [PMID: 32308663 PMCID: PMC7145961 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.00366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2019] [Accepted: 03/13/2020] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Cadmium (Cd) exposure causes an oxidative challenge and inhibits cell cycle progression, ultimately impacting plant growth. Stress-induced effects on the cell cycle are often a consequence of activation of the DNA damage response (DDR). The main aim of this study was to investigate the role of the transcription factor SUPPRESSOR OF GAMMA RESPONSE 1 (SOG1) and three downstream cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors of the SIAMESE-RELATED (SMR) family in the Cd-induced DDR and oxidative challenge in leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana. Effects of Cd on plant growth, cell cycle regulation and the expression of DDR genes were highly similar between the wildtype and smr4/5/7 mutant. In contrast, sog1-7 mutant leaves displayed a much lower Cd sensitivity within the experimental time-frame and significantly less pronounced upregulations of DDR-related genes, indicating the involvement of SOG1 in the Cd-induced DDR. Cadmium-induced responses related to the oxidative challenge were disturbed in the sog1-7 mutant, as indicated by delayed Cd-induced increases of hydrogen peroxide and glutathione concentrations and lower upregulations of oxidative stress-related genes. In conclusion, our results attribute a novel role to SOG1 in regulating the oxidative stress response and connect oxidative stress to the DDR in Cd-exposed plants.
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- Sophie Hendrix
- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Biosphere Impact Studies, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCKCEN), Mol, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Center for Plant Systems Biology, VIB, Ghent, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Saran A, Fernandez L, Cora F, Savio M, Thijs S, Vangronsveld J, Merini LJ. Phytostabilization of Pb and Cd polluted soils using Helianthus petiolaris as pioneer aromatic plant species. Int J Phytoremediation 2019; 22:459-467. [PMID: 31602996 DOI: 10.1080/15226514.2019.1675140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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The area of soils polluted with heavy metals is increasing due to industrialization and globalization. Aromatic plant species can be a suitable alternative way for agricultural valorization and phytomanagement of such soils by the commercialization of essential oils avoiding risks for the food chain. The potential of growing Helianthus petiolaris in heavy metal polluted soils was assessed in pot experiments using spiked soils and soils from a shooting range. In terms of phytostabilization, H. petiolaris could grow in soils containing 1000 mg/kg Pb2+, 50 mg/kg Cd2+, accumulating more than three times the soil Cd content in the aerial parts and translocating significant amounts of Pb to the aerial parts when growing in soils polluted with up to 500 mg/kg Pb. When phytostabilization is considered, phytotoxicity of heavy metals strongly depends on the rhizospheric microbial communities, either by mitigating trace element phytotoxicity or promoting plant growth via phytohormone production. So, the effects of heavy metals on the diversity of the rhizospheric bacterial community were assessed using DNA-fingerprinting.
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- A Saran
- INTA, Experimental Agricultural Station, Santa Rosa, Argentina
- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Limburg, Belgium
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- INTA, Experimental Agricultural Station, Santa Rosa, Argentina
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, National University of La Pampa, Santa Rosa, Argentina
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, National University of La Pampa, Santa Rosa, Argentina
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Limburg, Belgium
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Limburg, Belgium
- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Department of Plant Physiology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- INTA, Experimental Agricultural Station, Santa Rosa, Argentina
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Balseiro-Romero M, Monterroso C, Kidd PS, Lu-Chau TA, Gkorezis P, Vangronsveld J, Casares JJ. Modelling the ex situ bioremediation of diesel-contaminated soil in a slurry bioreactor using a hydrocarbon-degrading inoculant. J Environ Manage 2019; 246:840-848. [PMID: 31229766 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.06.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/12/2018] [Revised: 06/04/2019] [Accepted: 06/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Bioremediation is a soil clean-up technique which exploits the metabolic capacity of microorganisms to degrade soil contaminants. A model was developed to simulate the ex situ bioremediation of a diesel-contaminated soil in a bio-slurry reactor inoculated with a diesel-degrading bacterial strain. Mass transfer processes involving desorption of diesel from soil to water and volatilization of diesel from water, and biodegradation by the bacterial inoculant were included in the model by using Weibull sigmoid kinetics and logistic/Monod kinetics respectively. Model parameters were estimated in batch-based abiotic and biodegradation experiments. Sensitivity analysis revealed the importance of maintaining a high bacterial density in the system for maximum bioremediation efficiency. The model was validated using a pilot bioreactor monitored for 528 h, which removed almost 90% of the diesel present in the system. The results revealed the capacity of the model to predict the bioremediation efficiency under different scenarios by adapting the input parameters to each system.
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- María Balseiro-Romero
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; UMR ECOSYS, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Avenue Lucien Brétignières, 78850, Thiverval-Grignon, France.
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- Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Faculty of Biology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Instituto de Investigacións Agrobiolóxicas de Galicia (IIAG), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 15705, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, University of Hasselt, BE3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, University of Hasselt, BE3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Jambon I, Thijs S, Torres-Farradá G, Rineau F, Weyens N, Carleer R, Samyn P, Vangronsveld J. Fenton-Mediated Biodegradation of Chlorendic Acid - A Highly Chlorinated Organic Pollutant - By Fungi Isolated From a Polluted Site. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1892. [PMID: 31474967 PMCID: PMC6702520 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2019] [Accepted: 07/31/2019] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Chlorendic acid is a recalcitrant, highly chlorinated organic pollutant for which no microbial degrader has yet been identified. To address this knowledge gap, fungi were isolated from bulk soil, rhizosphere, and roots of the common bent (Agrostis capillaris) and the hybrid poplar [Populus deltoides × (Populus trichocarpa × P. deltoides) cv. Grimminge], both of which grow on a chlorendic acid polluted site in Belgium. Isolates were taxonomically identified and phenotypically screened for chlorendic acid degradation. Several fungal isolates could degrade chlorendic acid in liquid media up to 45%. The chlorendic acid degrading fungal isolates produced higher levels of hydroxyl radicals when exposed to the pollutant when compared to non-exposed controls, suggesting that the oxidative degradation of chlorendic acid occurs through production of Fenton-mediated hydroxyl radicals. In addition, the isolated Ascomycete Penicillium sp. 1D-2a degraded 58% of the original chlorendic acid concentration in the soil after 28 days. This study demonstrates that the presence of fungi in a chlorendic acid polluted soil can degrade this highly chlorinated organic pollutant. These results indicate that recalcitrant, seemingly non-biologically degradable organic pollutants, such as chlorendic acid, can be remediated by using bioremediation, which opens new perspectives for in situ bioremediation.
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- Inge Jambon
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Biology, University of Havana, La Habana, Cuba
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Institute for Materials Research, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Institute for Materials Research, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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Torres-Farradá G, Manzano-León AM, Rineau F, Ramos Leal M, Thijs S, Jambon I, Put J, Czech J, Guerra Rivera G, Carleer R, Vangronsveld J. Biodegradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by native Ganoderma sp. strains: identification of metabolites and proposed degradation pathways. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2019; 103:7203-7215. [PMID: 31256229 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-019-09968-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2019] [Revised: 06/04/2019] [Accepted: 06/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Since polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are mutagenic, teratogenic, and carcinogenic, they are of considerable environmental concern. A biotechnological approach to remove such compounds from polluted ecosystems could be based on the use of white-rot fungi (WRF). The potential of well-adapted indigenous Ganoderma strains to degrade PAHs remains underexplored. Seven native Ganoderma sp. strains with capacity to produce high levels of laccase enzymes and to degrade synthetic dyes were investigated for their degradation potential of PAHs. The crude enzymatic extracts produced by Ganoderma strains differentially degraded the PAHs assayed (naphthalene 34-73%, phenanthrene 9-67%, fluorene 11-64%). Ganoderma sp. UH-M was the most promising strain for the degradation of PAHs without the addition of redox mediators. The PAH oxidation performed by the extracellular enzymes produced more polar and soluble metabolites such as benzoic acid, catechol, phthalic and protocatechuic acids, allowing us to propose degradation pathways of these PAHs. This is the first study in which breakdown intermediates and degradation pathways of PAHs by a native strain of Ganoderma genus were determined. The treatment of PAHs with the biomass of this fungal strain enhanced the degradation of the three PAHs. The laccase enzymes played an important role in the degradation of these compounds; however, the role of peroxidases cannot be excluded. Ganoderma sp. UH-M is a promising candidate for the bioremediation of ecosystems polluted with PAHs.
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- Giselle Torres-Farradá
- Department of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Biology, University of Havana, Calle 25 No. 455. Vedado, Havana, Cuba.
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- Department of Plant Phytopathology, Research Institute for Tropical Fruit Trees (IIFT), Ave 7ma No. 3005, Playa, Havana, Cuba
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Building D, Diepenbeek, B-3590, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Department of Plant Phytopathology, Research Institute for Tropical Fruit Trees (IIFT), Ave 7ma No. 3005, Playa, Havana, Cuba
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Building D, Diepenbeek, B-3590, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Building D, Diepenbeek, B-3590, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Institute for Materials Research, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Building D, Diepenbeek, B-3590, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Institute for Materials Research, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Building D, Diepenbeek, B-3590, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Department of Microbiology and Virology, Faculty of Biology, University of Havana, Calle 25 No. 455. Vedado, Havana, Cuba
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- Institute for Materials Research, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Building D, Diepenbeek, B-3590, Hasselt, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan, Building D, Diepenbeek, B-3590, Hasselt, Belgium
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Imperato V, Portillo-Estrada M, McAmmond BM, Douwen Y, Van Hamme JD, Gawronski SW, Vangronsveld J, Thijs S. Genomic Diversity of Two Hydrocarbon-Degrading and Plant Growth-Promoting Pseudomonas Species Isolated from the Oil Field of Bóbrka (Poland). Genes (Basel) 2019; 10:genes10060443. [PMID: 31212674 PMCID: PMC6628094 DOI: 10.3390/genes10060443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2019] [Revised: 06/03/2019] [Accepted: 06/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria are important resources for use in phytoremediation applications. Yet, for many hydrocarbonoclastic strains the genetic information regarding pollutant degradation and detoxification has not been thoroughly revealed. In this study, hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria were isolated from a long-term oil-polluted soil in Bóbrka, Poland. Pseudomonas spp. was the most dominant species. Of all 69 isolated strains tested in the laboratory using qualitative biochemical assays, 61% showed the capability to use diesel as sole carbon source, 33% could produce indole, 19% produced siderophores, 36% produced organic acids, and 54% were capable of producing 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC)-deaminase. From all morphologically and genetically different strains, two representative Pseudomonas spp., strain VI4.1 and VI4T1, were selected for genome sequencing. Genomic analyses indicated the presence of the full naphthalene dioxygenase operon (plasmid and chromosomal), of genes involved in the degradation of BTEX compounds (Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, Xylene) and alkanes (alkB gene) as well as the anthranilate degradation pathway (strain VI4T1) and terephthalate dioxygenase protein (strain VI4.1). Proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry (PTR-TOF-MS) analyses confirmed naphthalene and BTEX degradation within seven days. Motility, resistance to abiotic stresses, high and low temperatures, low pH, and salinity were confirmed at the genetic level and experimentally verified. The presence of multiple degradative and plant growth promotion genes, together with the in vitro experimental evidence, indicates the high value of these two strains and their potential use for sustainable site clean-up.
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- Valeria Imperato
- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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- Centre of Excellence PLECO, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, B-2610 Wilrijk, Belgium.
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- Department of Biology Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, 805 TRU Way, Kamloops, BC V2C 0C8, Canada.
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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- Department of Biology Sciences, Thompson Rivers University, 805 TRU Way, Kamloops, BC V2C 0C8, Canada.
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- Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Nowoursynowska Road 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland.
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.
- Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Skłodowska-Curie University, 20-950 Lublin, Poland.
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- Environmental Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building D, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.
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Imperato V, Kowalkowski L, Portillo-Estrada M, Gawronski SW, Vangronsveld J, Thijs S. Characterisation of the Carpinus betulus L. Phyllomicrobiome in Urban and Forest Areas. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1110. [PMID: 31191469 PMCID: PMC6549492 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2018] [Accepted: 05/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Urban green areas are highly valued by citizens for their contribution to the quality of life in cities. Plants play an important role in mitigating airborne pollutants and are assisted in this role by the metabolic capacities of the millions of microbial cells that colonize leaf surfaces (phyllosphere). Many factors influence phyllosphere microbial community composition and function, but to what extent does airborne pollution in cities impact the composition of microbial communities and their functional degradation genes? Here we describe the characterization of the phyllospheric bacterial communities of Carpinus betulus L. trees (hornbeam) across three locations: the city center of Warsaw (Poland), a forest in a UNESCO World Heritage Site (Białowieża), and a forest in one of the world’s oldest operational oil fields (Bóbrka). C. betulus contained higher particulate matter (PM) concentrations, with higher concentrations of palladium and radon in the PM, on leaves in Warsaw than in the forests. Volatile organic compound (VOC) analyses of sampled air revealed higher concentrations of butanone methyl propanal, butylbenzene, and cyclohexane in Bóbrka than Warsaw and Białowieża, while in Warsaw, xylene and toluene were higher. Shotgun microbiome sequencing uncovered a dominance of Gammaproteobacteria (71%), mainly Pseudomonas spp., Actinobacteria, Alpha- and Betaproteobacteria, and Firmicutes. Community composition and function differed significantly between the forests and Warsaw city center. Statistically more hydrocarbon degradation genes were found in Białowieża compared to Warsaw and Bóbrka, and in vitro tests of diesel degradation and plant growth promotion traits of culturable representatives revealed that Białowieża held the highest number of bacteria with plant beneficial properties and degradation genes. This study provides the first detailed insights into the microbiome of C. betulus and sets the stage for developing to a more integrated understanding of phyllosphere microbiota in cities, and their relationships with human health.
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- Valeria Imperato
- Department of Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.,Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.,Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Skłodowska-Curie University, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Biology, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Espenshade J, Thijs S, Gawronski S, Bové H, Weyens N, Vangronsveld J. Influence of Urbanization on Epiphytic Bacterial Communities of the Platanus × hispanica Tree Leaves in a Biennial Study. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:675. [PMID: 31024477 PMCID: PMC6460055 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2018] [Accepted: 03/18/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The aerial surfaces of plants harbor diverse communities of microorganisms. The rising awareness concerning the potential roles of these phyllosphere microbiota for airborne pollutant remediation and plant growth promotion, advocates for a better understanding of their community structure and dynamics in urban ecosystems. Here, we characterized the epiphytic microbial communities on leaves of Platanus × hispanica trees in the city centre of Hasselt (Belgium), and the nearby forest area of Bokrijk, Genk (Belgium). We compared the influences of season, site, and air pollutants concentration variations on the tree’s phyllosphere microbiome by determining the intra- and inter-individual variation in leaf bacterial communities. High-throughput amplicon sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene revealed large variation in the bacterial community structure and diversity throughout the years but also allowed to discriminate an environment effect on community assembly. Partial drivers for this environment effect on composition can be correlated with the huge differences in ultrafine particulate matter (UFP) and black carbon on the leaves. A change in bacterial community composition was noted for trees growing in the city center compared to the natural site, and also more human-associated genera were found colonizing the leaves from the city center. These integrated results offer an original and first insight in the Platanus phyllomicrobiota, which can offer new opportunities to use phyllosphere microorganisms to enhance air pollution degradation.
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- Jordan Espenshade
- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Faculty of Horticulture, Biotechnology and Landscape Architecture, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.,Biomedical Research Institute, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.,Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium.,Department of Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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Thijs S, Witters N, Janssen J, Ruttens A, Weyens N, Herzig R, Mench M, Van Slycken S, Meers E, Meiresonne L, Vangronsveld J. Tobacco, Sunflower and High Biomass SRC Clones Show Potential for Trace Metal Phytoextraction on a Moderately Contaminated Field Site in Belgium. Front Plant Sci 2018; 9:1879. [PMID: 30622547 PMCID: PMC6308991 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01879] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2018] [Accepted: 12/05/2018] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Phytoextraction could be a potential management option for diffusely Cd-Zn-Pb-polluted agricultural land in Northeast Belgium. The use of high yielding crops with a sufficiently high metal accumulation is preferred as these are expected to both gradually decontaminate the soil while generating an income through biomass valorization. To find out which high biomass crop possessed the highest and most constant (in time) phytoextraction potential on these soils, different plant species and different mutants or clones of each species, were evaluated during consecutive years. Biomass production and metal accumulation of pre-selected tobacco somaclonal variants (Nicotiana tabacum L.) and pre-selected sunflower mutants (Helianthus annuus L.) were investigated for two productivity years, while the phytoextraction potential of experimental poplar (Populus) and willow (Salix) in short rotation coppice (SRC) was assessed at the end of the second cutting cycle (after two times four growing seasons). The tobacco clones and the sunflower mutants showed efficient extraction of, respectively, Cd and Zn, while the highest simultaneous extractions of Cd and Zn were gained with some SRC clones. Variation in biomass production and metal accumulation were high for all crops over the years. The highest biomass production was observed for the experimental poplar clone of the crossing type Populus deltoides (P. maximowiczii x P. trichocarpa) with 9.9 ton DW per ha per year. The remediation period to reach legal threshold values for the pseudo-total content of Cd in this specific soil was estimated to be at least 60 years. Combining estimated phytoextraction potential and economic and environmental aspects, the SRC option is proposed as the most suitable crop for implementing metal phytoextraction in the investigated area.
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- Sofie Thijs
- Centre for Environmental Sciences University, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences University, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences University, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre, CODA-CERVA, Tervuren, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences University, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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- BIOGECO, INRA, University of Bordeaux, Pessac, France
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- Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Ecochemistry, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry and Applied Ecochemistry, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
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- Institute for Nature and Forest Research, Geraardsbergen, Belgium
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- Centre for Environmental Sciences University, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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