Response and resilience of soil microbial communities inhabiting in edible oil stress/contamination from industrial estates.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gauging the microbial community structures and functions become imperative to understand the ecological processes. To understand the impact of long-term oil contamination on microbial community structure soil samples were taken from oil fields located in different industrial regions across Kadi, near Ahmedabad, India. Soil collected was hence used for metagenomic DNA extraction to study the capabilities of intrinsic microbial community in tolerating the oil perturbation.

Results

Taxonomic profiling was carried out by two different complementary approaches i.e. 16S rDNA and lowest common ancestor. The community profiling revealed the enrichment of phylum "Proteobacteria" and genus "Chromobacterium," respectively for polluted soil sample. Our results indicated that

SUBMITTER: Patel V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4802719 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature