Associative diazotrophic bacteria in grass roots and soils from heavy metal contaminated sites

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências

Fátima M.s. Moreira²  Anderson Lange¹  Osmar Klauberg-filho¹  José O. Siqueira²  Rafaela S.a. Nóbrega¹  Adriana S. Lima¹ 

[1] ,Universidade Federal de Lavras Departamento de Ciência do Solo Lavras MG ,Brasil

关键词: Azospirillum;    Zinc;    Cadmium;    soil contaminants;    Nitrogen-fixing bacteria;    Azospirillum;    zinco;    cádmio;    contaminantes do solo;    bactérias fixadoras de N2;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0001-37652008000400014

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

This work aimed to evaluate density of associative diazotrophic bacteria populations in soil and grass root samples from heavy metal contaminated sites, and to characterize isolates from these populations, both, phenotypically (Zinc, Cadmium and NaCl tolerance in vitro, and protein profiles) and genotypically (16S rDNA sequencing), as compared to type strains of known diazotrophic species. Densities were evaluated by using NFb, Fam and JNFb media, commonly used for enrichment cultures of diazotrophic bacteria. Bacterial densities found in soil and grass root samples from contaminated sites were similar to those reported for agricultural soils. Azospirillum spp. isolates from contaminated sites and type strains from non-contaminated sites varied substantially in their in vitro tolerance to Zn+2 and Cd+2, being Cd+2 more toxic than Zn+2. Among the most tolerant isolates (UFLA 1S, 1R, S181, S34 and S22), some (1R, S34 and S22) were more tolerant to heavy metals than rhizobia from tropical and temperate soils. The majority of the isolates tolerant to heavy metals were also tolerant to salt stress as indicated by their ability to grow in solid medium supplemented with 30 g L-1 NaCl. Five isolates exhibited high dissimilarity in protein profiles, and the 16S rDNA sequence analysis of two of them revealed new sequences for Azospirillum.

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