Microbiome Diversity and Community-Level Change Points within Manure-based small Biogas Plants.

ABSTRACT: Efforts to integrate biogas plants into bioeconomy concepts will lead to an expansion of manure-based (small) biogas plants, while their operation is challenging due to critical characteristics of some types of livestock manure. For a better process understanding, in this study, three manure-based small biogas plants were investigated with emphasis on microbiome diversity. Due to varying digester types, feedstocks, and process conditions, 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing showed differences in the taxonomic composition. Dynamic variations of each investigated biogas plant microbiome over time were analyzed by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP), whereby nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) revealed two well-running systems, one of them with a high share of chicke

SUBMITTER: Theuerl S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7464807 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature