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ArticleMicrobes and environments2024

Successful Isolation of Diverse Verrucomicrobiota Strains through the Duckweed-Microbes Co-cultivation Method.

Yasuhiro Tanaka, Erina Tozawa, Tomoki Iwashita, Yosuke Morishita, Hideyuki Tamaki, Tadashi Toyama, Masaaki Morikawa, Yoichi Kamagata, Kazuhiro Mori

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Yasuhiro TanakaGraduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Yamanashi.
Erina TozawaGraduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Yamanashi.
Tomoki IwashitaGraduate School of Engineering, University of Yamanashi.
Yosuke MorishitaGraduate School of Engineering, University of Yamanashi.
Hideyuki TamakiBioproduction Research Institute, AIST.
Tadashi ToyamaGraduate School of Engineering, University of Yamanashi.
Masaaki MorikawaDivision of Biosphere Science, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University.
Yoichi KamagataBioproduction Research Institute, AIST.
Kazuhiro MoriGraduate School of Engineering, University of Yamanashi.

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Abstract

The "duckweed-microbes co-cultivation method" is a microbial isolation technique that effectively recovers diverse microbes, including rarely cultivated bacterial phyla, from environmental samples. In this method, aseptic duckweed and microbes collected from an environmental sample are co-cultivated for several days, and duckweed-associated microbes are then isolated from its roots using a conventional agar plate-based cultivation method. We herein propose several improvements to the method in order to specifically obtain members of the rarely cultivated bacterial phylum, Verrucomicrobiota. In systems using river water as the inoculum, the marked enrichment of Verrucomicrobiota was observed after 10 days of co-cultivation, particularly in the roots and co-cultivated media. We also successfully isolated 44 strains belonging to subdivisions 1, 3, and 4 of the phylum Verrucomicrobiota from these systems. This was achieved by changing the concentration of nitrogen in the co-cultivation medium, which is known to affect duckweed growth and/or metabolism, and by subjecting the fronds and co-cultivated media as well as the roots after co-cultivation to microbial isolation.

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AraceaeBacteriaCoculture TechniquesPlant RootsRNA, Ribosomal, 16SBiodiversityCulture MediaDNA, BacterialNitrogenPhylogenyRiversWater MicrobiologyCulture MediaDNA, BacterialNitrogenRNA, Ribosomal, 16Saquatic plantduckweedmicrobial isolationVerrucomicrobiota

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