Influence of long term irrigation with pulp and paper mill effluent on the bacterial community structure and catabolic function in soil.

ABSTRACT: Microbial communities play a vital role in maintaining soil health. A multiphasic approach to assess the effect of pulp and paper mill effluent on both the structure and function of microbial soil communities is taken. Bacterial communities from agricultural soils irrigated with pulp and paper mill effluent were compared to communities form soils irrigated with well water. Samples were taken from fields in the state of Uttarakhand, India, where pulp and paper mill effluent has been used for irrigation for over 25 years. Comparisons of bacterial community structure were conducted using sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene from both isolates and clone libraries attained from the soil. Community-level physiological profiling was used to characterize the functional diversity and catabolic profile o

SUBMITTER: Tripathi BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3889853 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature