PMID- 12919412 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20031110 LR - 20191107 IS - 1462-2912 (Print) IS - 1462-2912 (Linking) VI - 5 IP - 9 DP - 2003 Sep TI - Microbial community dynamics during start-up operation of flowerpot-using fed-batch reactors for composting of household biowaste. PG - 765-76 AB - Microbial community changes during start-up operation of flowerpot-using fed-batch reactors for composting of household biowaste were studied by quinone profiling, rRNA-targeted fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and cultivation methods. Total and plate counts of bacteria and quinone contents in the reactors increased sharply with time during the start-up period. These increase patterns had two phases; the first increase occurred during 3-4 weeks from the start of waste loading and the second increase was found during the subsequent 4 weeks. The microbial biomass was temporally reduced between the two succession phases. Ubiquinones predominated at the beginning of operation but decreased sharply with time, whereas partially saturated menaquinones became predominant at the fully acclimated stage. These data indicated that the major constituents of microbial populations changed from ubiquinone-containing Proteobacteria to Actinobacteria during the period of operation. Neighbour-joining dendrograms constructed based on the quinone profile data suggested that at least one month is required to establish a stable community structure with the Actinobacteria predominating. The characteristic population shift in the start-up process was also demonstrated by FISH probing and 16S rDNA sequence comparisons of bacterial strains isolated. FAU - Hiraishi, Akira AU - Hiraishi A AD - Department of Ecological Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi 441-8580, Japan. hiraishi@eco.tut.ac.jp FAU - Narihiro, Takashi AU - Narihiro T FAU - Yamanaka, Yosuke AU - Yamanaka Y LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Environ Microbiol JT - Environmental microbiology JID - 100883692 RN - 0 (DNA, Bacterial) RN - 0 (DNA, Ribosomal) RN - 0 (Quinones) RN - 0 (RNA, Ribosomal, 16S) SB - IM MH - Actinobacteria/growth & development/metabolism MH - Bacteria/classification/*growth & development/metabolism MH - Base Sequence MH - Biodegradation, Environmental MH - Bioreactors/*microbiology MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid MH - Colony Count, Microbial MH - DNA, Bacterial/isolation & purification MH - DNA, Ribosomal/chemistry/isolation & purification MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence MH - Microscopy, Fluorescence MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Phylogeny MH - Proteobacteria/growth & development/metabolism MH - Quinones/analysis MH - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/chemistry MH - Refuse Disposal/*methods MH - Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid EDAT- 2003/08/16 05:00 MHDA- 2003/11/11 05:00 CRDT- 2003/08/16 05:00 PHST- 2003/08/16 05:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2003/11/11 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2003/08/16 05:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00473.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Environ Microbiol. 2003 Sep;5(9):765-76. doi: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00473.x.