Acidotolerant Bacteria and Fungi as a Sink of Methanol-Derived Carbon in a Deciduous Forest Soil.

ABSTRACT: Methanol is an abundant atmospheric volatile organic compound that is released from both living and decaying plant material. In forest and other aerated soils, methanol can be consumed by methanol-utilizing microorganisms that constitute a known terrestrial sink. However, the environmental factors that drive the biodiversity of such methanol-utilizers have been hardly resolved. Soil-derived isolates of methanol-utilizers can also often assimilate multicarbon compounds as alternative substrates. Here, we conducted a comparative DNA stable isotope probing experiment under methylotrophic (only [¹³C₁]-methanol was supplemented) and combined substrate conditions ([¹²C₁]-methanol and alternative multi-carbon [¹³C_u]-substrates were

SUBMITTER: Morawe M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5523551 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature