Taxonomic and Functional Dynamics of Bacterial Communities During Drift Seaweed Vermicomposting.

ABSTRACT: Seaweed is a valuable natural resource, but drift or beach-cast seaweed is considered a waste product. Although seaweed is traditionally used as an organic amendment, vermicomposting has the potential to transform the material into valuable organic fertilizer, thereby enhancing its microbial properties. This study aimed to investigate the dynamics of the taxonomic and functional bacterial communities in seaweed during the vermicomposting process by high-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons. Vermicomposting changed the composition of the bacterial communities, as indicated by the low proportion of bacterial taxa common to the bacterial communities in the raw seaweed and vermicompost (21 to 56 ASVs from more than 900 ASVs per sample type). The observed increase in taxonomic diver

SUBMITTER: Aira M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11767599 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature