ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2013
Transcriptional response of nitrifying communities to wetting of dry soil.
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- Viral but not bacterial community successional patterns reflect extreme turnover shortly after rewetting dry soils.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- A subset of viruses thrives following microbial resuscitation during rewetting of a seasonally dry California grassland soil.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Water-driven microbial nitrogen transformations in biological soil crusts causing atmospheric nitrous acid and nitric oxide emissions.The ISME journal · 2022Article
- Landscape Topography and Regional Drought Alters Dust Microbiomes in the Sierra Nevada of California.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Metagenomic approaches reveal differences in genetic diversity and relative abundance of nitrifying bacteria and archaea in contrasting soils.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Measurement of Volatile Compounds for Real-Time Analysis of Soil Microbial Metabolic Response to Simulated Snowmelt.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Differential Ecosystem Function Stability of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria following Short-Term Environmental Perturbation.mSystems · 2020Article
- Vegetation-Dependent Response to Drought in Salt Marsh Ammonia-Oxidizer Communities.Microorganisms · 2019Article
- Controls and Adaptive Management of Nitrification in Agricultural Soils.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Review
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- Drying and Rainfall Shape the Structure and Functioning of Nitrifying Microbial Communities in Riverbed Sediments.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
- Aridity and plant uptake interact to make dryland soils hotspots for nitric oxide (NO) emissions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016Article
- The Resilience of Microbial Community under Drying and Rewetting Cycles of Three Forest Soils.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Article
- Effects of Mulching and Nitrogen on Soil Nitrate-N Distribution, Leaching and Nitrogen Use Efficiency of Maize (Zea mays L.).PloS one · 2016Article
- Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacterium Nitrobacter winogradskyi Produces N-Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Autoinducers.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2015Article
- Dispersing misconceptions and identifying opportunities for the use of 'omics' in soil microbial ecology.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2015Article
- Spatial Interaction of Archaeal Ammonia-Oxidizers and Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria in an Unfertilized Grassland Soil.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Article
- Recurrence and Frequency of Disturbance have Cumulative Effect on Methanotrophic Activity, Abundance, and Community Structure.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
The first rainfall following a severe dry period provides an abrupt water potential change that is both an acute physiological stress and a defined stimulus for the reawakening of soil microbial communities. We followed the responses of indigenous communities of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria, ammonia-oxidizing archaea, and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria to the addition of water to laboratory incubations of soils taken from two California annual grasslands following a typically dry Mediterranean summer. By quantifying transcripts for a subunit of bacterial and archaeal ammonia monooxygenases (amoA) and a bacterial nitrite oxidoreductase (nxrA) in soil from 15 min to 72 h after water addition, we identified transcriptional response patterns for each of these three groups of nitrifiers. An increase in quantity of bacterial amoA transcripts was detectable within 1 h of wet-up and continued until the size of the ammonium pool began to decrease, reflecting a possible role of transcription in upregulation of nitrification after drought-induced stasis. In one soil, the pulse of amoA transcription lasted for less than 24 h, demonstrating the transience of transcriptional pools and the tight coupling of transcription to the local soil environment. Analysis of 16S rRNA using a high-density microarray suggested that nitrite-oxidizing Nitrobacter spp. respond in tandem with ammonia-oxidizing bacteria while nitrite-oxidizing Nitrospina spp. and Nitrospira bacteria may not. Archaeal ammonia oxidizers may respond slightly later than bacterial ammonia oxidizers but may maintain elevated transcription longer. Despite months of desiccation-induced inactivation, we found rapid transcriptional response by all three groups of soil nitrifiers.
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