Project description:This study evaluated the ammonium oxidizing communities (COA) associated with a potato crop (Solanum phureja) rhizosphere soil in the savannah of Bogotá (Colombia) by examining the presence and abundance of amoA enzyme genes and transcripts by qPCR and next-generation sequence analysis. amoA gene abundance could not be quantified by qPCR due to problems inherent in the primers; however, the melting curve analysis detected increased fluorescence for Bacterial communities but not for Archaeal communities. Transcriptome analysis by next-generation sequencing revealed that the majority of reads mapped to ammonium-oxidizing Archaea, suggesting that this activity is primarily governed by the microbial group of the Crenarchaeota phylum. In contrast,a lower number of reads mapped to ammonia-oxidizing bacteria.
Project description:Marine ammonia-oxidizing archaea are known to lack the catalase gene that functions as a scavenger at high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide. Therefore, nearly isolated ammonia-oxidizing archaea require the addition of a hydrogen peroxide scavenger to their culture medium, despite being aerobic. To understand the transcriptomic response to hydrogen peroxide stress, we performed RNA-Seq analysis under two different conditions: one without the addition of a hydrogen peroxide scavenger and one with the addition of a hydrogen peroxide scavenger as a control.