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ArticlePloS one2021

Reading the ground: Understanding the response of bioelectric microbes to anthropogenic compounds in soil based terrestrial microbial fuel cells.

Robyn A Barbato, Robert M Jones, Michael A Musty, Scott M Slone

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Article in PloS one, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 40% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Machine Learning in Bioelectrocatalysis.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Robyn A BarbatoUS Army Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-8314-8526
Robert M JonesUS Army Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States of America.
Michael A MustyUS Army Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States of America.
Scott M SloneUS Army Engineer Research and Development Center Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH, United States of America.
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electrogenic bacteria produce power in soil based terrestrial microbial fuel cells (tMFCs) by growing on electrodes and transferring electrons released from the breakdown of substrates. The direction and magnitude of voltage production is hypothesized to be dependent on the available substrates. A sensor technology was developed for compounds indicative of anthropological activity by exposing tMFCs to gasoline, petroleum, 2,4-dinitrotoluene, fertilizer, and urea. A machine learning classifier was trained to identify compounds based on the voltage patterns. After 5 to 10 days, the mean voltage stabilized (+/- 0.5 mV). After the entire incubation, voltage ranged from -59.1 mV to 631.8 mV, with the tMFCs containing urea and gasoline producing the highest (624 mV) and lowest (-9 mV) average voltage, respectively. The machine learning algorithm effectively discerned between gasoline, urea, and fertilizer with greater than 94% accuracy, demonstrating that this technology could be successfully operated as an environmental sensor for change detection.

Indexed as

Bioelectric Energy SourcesBiosensing TechniquesFertilizersGasolineMachine LearningSoil MicrobiologyUreaFertilizersGasolineUrea

Identifiers

PMID34937056
PMCPMC8694411
OpenAlexW4200333433

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Registered trials

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