ArticleNature communications2020
Cable bacteria reduce methane emissions from rice-vegetated soils.
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- Multidisciplinary methodologies used in the study of cable bacteria.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2025Review
- End-to-end contact enables long-distance electron transport between filaments in cable bacteria.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Cable Bacteria and Their Biotechnological Application.Advances in biochemical engineering/biotechnology · 2025Review
- Review: can bioelectrochemical sensors be used to monitor soil microbiome activity and fertility?Current opinion in biotechnology · 2024Review
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- Electrogenic sulfur oxidation mediated by cable bacteria and its ecological effects.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2024Review
- Electron Transfer in the Biogeochemical Sulfur Cycle.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Global diversity and inferred ecophysiology of microorganisms with the potential for dissimilatory sulfate/sulfite reduction.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2023Article
- Cable bacteria with electric connection to oxygen attract flocks of diverse bacteria.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Editorial: Electromicrobiology-from electrons to ecosystems, volume II.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Microbial succession in a marine sediment: Inferring interspecific microbial interactions with marine cable bacteria.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Cable bacteria at oxygen-releasing roots of aquatic plants: a widespread and diverse plant-microbe association.The New phytologist · 2021Article
- Cable bacteria extend the impacts of elevated dissolved oxygen into anoxic sediments.The ISME journal · 2021Article
- Cell Cycle, Filament Growth and Synchronized Cell Division in Multicellular Cable Bacteria.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and approximately 11% of the global anthropogenic methane emissions originate from rice fields. Sulfate amendment is a mitigation strategy to reduce methane emissions from rice fields because sulfate reducers and methanogens compete for the same substrates. Cable bacteria are filamentous bacteria known to increase sulfate levels via electrogenic sulfide oxidation. Here we show that one-time inoculation of rice-vegetated soil pots with cable bacteria increases the sulfate inventory 5-fold, which leads to the reduction of methane emissions by 93%, compared to control pots lacking cable bacteria. Promoting cable bacteria in rice fields by enrichment or sensible management may thus become a strategy to reduce anthropogenic methane emissions.
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