PMID- 20097828 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20100518 LR - 20220321 IS - 1098-5336 (Electronic) IS - 0099-2240 (Print) IS - 0099-2240 (Linking) VI - 76 IP - 6 DP - 2010 Mar TI - Anaerobic digestion of renewable biomass: thermophilic temperature governs methanogen population dynamics. PG - 1842-50 LID - 10.1128/AEM.02397-09 [doi] AB - Beet silage and beet juice were digested continuously as representative energy crops in a thermophilic biogas fermentor for more than 7 years. Fluorescence microscopy of 15 samples covering a period of 650 days revealed that a decrease in temperature from 60 degrees C to 55 degrees C converted a morphologically uniform archaeal population (rods) into a population of methanogens exhibiting different cellular morphologies (rods and coccoid cells). A subsequent temperature increase back to 60 degrees C reestablished the uniform morphology of methanogens observed in the previous 60 degrees C period. In order to verify these observations, representative samples were investigated by amplified rRNA gene restriction analysis (ARDRA) and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Both methods confirmed the temperature-dependent population shift observed by fluorescence microscopy. Moreover, all samples investigated demonstrated that hydrogenotrophic Methanobacteriales dominated in the fermentor, as 29 of 34 identified operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were assigned to this order. This apparent discrimination of acetoclastic methanogens contradicts common models for anaerobic digestion processes, such as anaerobic digestion model 1 (ADM1), which describes the acetotrophic Euryarchaeota as predominant organisms. FAU - Krakat, Niclas AU - Krakat N AD - Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Research Centre of Lifetec Process Engineering, Lohbrugger Kirchstr. 65, 21033 Hamburg-Bergedorf, Germany. niclas.krakat@haw-hamburg.de FAU - Westphal, A AU - Westphal A FAU - Schmidt, S AU - Schmidt S FAU - Scherer, P AU - Scherer P LA - eng SI - GENBANK/FN547929 SI - GENBANK/FN547962 PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20100122 PL - United States TA - Appl Environ Microbiol JT - Applied and environmental microbiology JID - 7605801 RN - OP0UW79H66 (Methane) SB - IM MH - Anaerobiosis MH - Archaea/classification/*growth & development/metabolism MH - Bacteria/classification/*growth & development/metabolism MH - Beta vulgaris/*metabolism MH - Bioreactors/*microbiology MH - DNA Fingerprinting MH - In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence MH - Metagenomics MH - Methane/*metabolism MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Sequence Analysis, DNA MH - Silage/*microbiology MH - *Temperature PMC - PMC2838025 EDAT- 2010/01/26 06:00 MHDA- 2010/05/19 06:00 PMCR- 2010/09/01 CRDT- 2010/01/26 06:00 PHST- 2010/01/26 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/01/26 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/05/19 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2010/09/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - AEM.02397-09 [pii] AID - 2397-09 [pii] AID - 10.1128/AEM.02397-09 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Appl Environ Microbiol. 2010 Mar;76(6):1842-50. doi: 10.1128/AEM.02397-09. Epub 2010 Jan 22.