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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2007

Isolation of key methanogens for global methane emission from rice paddy fields: a novel isolate affiliated with the clone cluster rice cluster I.

Sanae Sakai, Hiroyuki Imachi, Yuji Sekiguchi, Akiyoshi Ohashi, Hideki Harada, Yoichi Kamagata

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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6 authors.

Sanae SakaiDepartment of Environmental Systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan.
Hiroyuki Imachi
Yuji Sekiguchi
Akiyoshi Ohashi
Hideki Harada
Yoichi Kamagata

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Abstract

Despite the fact that rice paddy fields (RPFs) are contributing 10 to 25% of global methane emissions, the organisms responsible for methane production in RPFs have remained uncultivated and thus uncharacterized. Here we report the isolation of a methanogen (strain SANAE) belonging to an abundant and ubiquitous group of methanogens called rice cluster I (RC-I) previously identified as an ecologically important microbial component via culture-independent analyses. To enrich the RC-I methanogens from rice paddy samples, we attempted to mimic the in situ conditions of RC-I on the basis of the idea that methanogens in such ecosystems should thrive by receiving low concentrations of substrate (H(2)) continuously provided by heterotrophic H(2)-producing bacteria. For this purpose, we developed a coculture method using an indirect substrate (propionate) in defined medium and a propionate-oxidizing, H(2)-producing syntroph, Syntrophobacter fumaroxidans, as the H(2) supplier. By doing so, we significantly enriched the RC-I methanogens and eventually obtained a methanogen within the RC-I group in pure culture. This is the first report on the isolation of a methanogen within RC-I.

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ArchaeaBase SequenceDNA, ArchaealEcosystemHydrogenMethaneMolecular Sequence DataOryzaPhylogenyRNA, ArchaealRNA, Ribosomal, 16SSoil MicrobiologyDNA, ArchaealHydrogenMethaneRNA, ArchaealRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

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PMID17483259
PMCPMC1932770

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