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ArticleMicroorganisms2025

Bacterial Diversity Dynamics in Sandy Loam Soils in Tanzania Under Varying Fertilizer-Derived Uranium Concentrations.

Dennis A Mwalongo, Jacob B Lisuma, Nils H Haneklaus, Ali Maged, Hendrik Brink, Fernando P Carvalho, Stanisław Wacławek, Nelson Mpumi, Aloyce I Amasi, Jerome M Mwimanzi and 3 more

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Article in Microorganisms, 2025. 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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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Dennis A MwalongoTanzania Atomic Energy Commission (TAEC), Arusha P.O. Box 743, Tanzania.
Jacob B LisumaTobacco Research Institute of Tanzania (TORITA), Tabora P.O. Box 431, Tanzania.
Nils H HaneklausNelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), School for Materials, Energy, Water, Environmental Science and Engineering, Arusha P.O. Box 447, Tanzania.ORCID 0000-0002-0673-0376
Ali MagedGeology Department, Faculty of Science, Suez University, Suez 43518, Egypt.ORCID 0000-0001-5257-8523
Hendrik BrinkDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-4699-6152
Fernando P CarvalhoLaboratório de Protecção e Segurança Radiológica, Instituto Superior Técnico/Campus Tecnológico Nuclear, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-6639-6138
Stanisław WacławekInstitute for Nanomaterials, Advanced Technologies, and Innovation, Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic.ORCID 0000-0002-8430-8269
Nelson MpumiNelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), School for Materials, Energy, Water, Environmental Science and Engineering, Arusha P.O. Box 447, Tanzania.
Aloyce I AmasiNelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), School for Materials, Energy, Water, Environmental Science and Engineering, Arusha P.O. Box 447, Tanzania.
Jerome M MwimanziNelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), School for Materials, Energy, Water, Environmental Science and Engineering, Arusha P.O. Box 447, Tanzania.ORCID 0000-0002-9068-528X
Furaha M ChumaNelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), School for Materials, Energy, Water, Environmental Science and Engineering, Arusha P.O. Box 447, Tanzania.
Thomas T KiveveleNelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), School for Materials, Energy, Water, Environmental Science and Engineering, Arusha P.O. Box 447, Tanzania.
Kelvin M MteiNelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), School for Materials, Energy, Water, Environmental Science and Engineering, Arusha P.O. Box 447, Tanzania.ORCID 0000-0002-6792-3083

Funding

Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 10.55776/ESP1514224Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research CZ 12/2024, HU 06/2024, APPEAR Project341Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic Reg. no.: 8J24AT037
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The presence of radiotoxic uranium (U) in mineral fertilizers is of global concern. A pilot study was conducted in Tabora (Tanzania) to determine the release of U from three brands of phosphate fertilizers and its impact on soil bacteria. The experiment used three types of fertilizer: Minjingu Powder (MP), Nafaka Plus (NP), a mixed and granulated fertilizer made from Minjingu Phosphate Rock (MPR), and YaraMila Cereal (YC) fertilizer. There was also a control treatment that was not fertilized (NF). Alpha diversity and the R tool were used to analyze bacterial diversity in four samples within an average sequencing depth of 74,466 reads, using metrics like ASVs, Shannon index, and Chao1. The results showed that the number of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) in the DNA from soil bacteria decreased, specifically to 400 ASVs, in the NP treatment, which was in line with the higher U concentration (3.93 mg kg

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loam soilphosphate fertilizerssoil bacterial diversityTanzaniauranium

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