MICROCOSMS AND THE ROLE OF ACTIVE MICROBIOTA ON METHANE CYCLE IN SOILS UNDER FORESTS AND PASTURE OF EASTERN AMAZON

• Grant number: 15/12282-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): September 01, 2015
• Effective date (End): March 03, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Agronomy - Soil Science
• Principal Investigator: Tsai Siu Mui
• Grantee: Fernanda Mancini Nakamura
• Host Institution: Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Piracicaba , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 14/50320-4 - Dimensions US-BIOTA - São Paulo: collaborative research: integrating dimensions of microbial biodiversity across land use change in tropical forests, AP.BTA.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/09952-5 - Revealing the soil microbial activity on the methane cycling with forest conversion through isotopic labeling: part II, BE.EP.DR 17/09616-5 - Revealing the soil microbial activity on the methane cycling with forest convertion throught isotopic labeling, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Changes on soil use influence soil dinamics, its microbiota and, therefore, biochemical cycles. Amazonian bioma is suffering dramatic changes on its soil uses over the past 30 years, as Amazonian Dark Earths (ADE) and managed soils with crops and pasture, which the burnt is currently. ADE are known to be one of the most fertile of the world and, although of many researches to discover its dinamics, there is not a comprehension of soils compartments that sustain its fertility and ecology, Greenhouse gases (GHG) are the main ruling of studies around the world and changes on the soils uses in vast territories as Amazon Forest causes concern due to the fast progress and the lack of knownleadge of its influences on the biochemical cycles of tropical forests. Another issue is the respose to the GHG increase by tropical soils. Advanced molecular studies allied to stable isotope incorporation by soil microbiota can answer the issues like: who are the producer and consumption microbiota of methane; what are their relation with soil chemical and physical components; and what their influence on methane dinamics of tropical soils. This study is innovative for being the first to evaluate the methane and consumption and emission by metatranscriptomics and Stable Isotope Probing technique to study amazonian soils from distinct vegetal coverages. The possible answer would be how the microbial ecology of soil under vegetal coverages act on methane dinamics, and also the possibility to discover novel prokaryotes and genes of biotechnological interest.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

MANDRO, JESSICA A.; NAKAMURA, FERNANDA M.; GONTIJO, JULIA B.; TSAI, SIU M.; VENTURINI, ANDRESSA M.. Metagenome-Assembled Genomes from Amazonian Soil Microbial Consortia. MICROBIOLOGY RESOURCE ANNOUNCEMENTS, v. 11, n. 11, p. 5-pg., 2022-10-27. (14/50320-4, 15/12282-6, 15/23758-1, 15/13546-7, 19/26029-1, 18/14974-0, 19/25931-3)

VENTURINI, ANDRESSA M.; DIAS, NAISSA M. S.; GONTIJO, JULIA B.; YOSHIURA, CAIO A.; PAULA, FABIANA S.; MEYER, KYLE M.; NAKAMURA, FERNANDA M.; DA FRANCA, ALINE G.; BORGES, CLOVIS D.; BARLOW, JOS; et al. Increased soil moisture intensifies the impacts of forest-to-pasture conversion on methane emissions and methane-cycling communities in the Eastern Amazon. Environmental Research, v. 212, p. 13-pg., 2022-04-06. (14/50320-4, 15/13546-7, 15/08564-6, 19/25931-3, 17/09616-5, 17/26138-0, 16/11268-2, 17/09643-2, 17/09952-5, 15/12282-6, 18/14974-0)

VENTURINI, ANDRESSA MONTEIRO; NAKAMURA, FERNANDA MANCINI; GONTIJO, JULIA BRANDAO; DA FRANCA, ALINE GIOVANA; YOSHIURA, CAIO AUGUSTO; MANDRO, JESSICA ADRIELE; TSAI, SIU MUI. Robust DNA protocols for tropical soils. HELIYON, v. 6, n. 5, MAY 2020. (15/12282-6, 15/08564-6, 15/13546-7, 18/14974-0, 14/50320-4, 15/23758-1)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

NAKAMURA, Fernanda Mancini. Microcosms and the role of active microbiota on methane cycle in soils under forest and pasture of Eastern Amazon. 2019. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (CENA/STB) Piracicaba.