Community shifts in a well-operating agricultural biogas plant: how process variations are handled by the microbiome

Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 99, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 7791-7803

  Theuerl, Susanne ^a   Kohrs, Fabian ^b   Benndorf, Dirk ^b   Maus, Irena ^d   Wibberg, Daniel ^d   Schlüter, Andreas ^d   Kausmann, Robert ^a   Heiermann, Monika ^a   Rapp, Erdmann ^c   Reichl, Udo ^b,c   Pühler, Alfred ^d   Klocke, Michael ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING AND BIOECONOMY ATB   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^d BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing; Ecosystem fluctuations and stability; Full scale (agricultural) biogas plant; Metaproteomic analysis; Microbial community; TRFLP

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOGAS; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; RNA;

AMPLICONS; BIOGAS PLANTS; METAPROTEOMIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; TRFLP;

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION;

BIOGAS; DNA; METHANE; NITROGEN; RNA 16S; VOLATILE FATTY ACID; BIOFUEL; MANURE; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOGAS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CEREAL; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONAL CHANGE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROORGANISM; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; POWER PLANT; PROTEIN; PROTEOMICS; SLURRY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AGRICULTURAL BIOGAS PLANT; AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BOVINE; CLONING; CROP; ECOSYSTEM; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MAIZE; MANURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEOMICS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RYE; SILAGE; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; ANIMAL; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RADIATION RESPONSE; SECALE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

BOS; SECALE CEREALE; ZEA MAYS;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ANIMALS; BIOFUELS; BIOTA; CATTLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MANURE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SECALE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84939565035     PISSN: 01757598     EISSN: 14320614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6627-9     Document Type: Article

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