Cable bacteria reduce methane emissions from rice-vegetated soils.
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SUBMITTER: Scholz VV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7171082 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr
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Cable bacteria reduce methane emissions from rice-vegetated soils.
Scholz Vincent V VV Meckenstock Rainer U RU Nielsen Lars Peter LP Risgaard-Petersen Nils N
Nature communications 20200420 1
Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and approximately 11% of the global anthropogenic methane emissions originate from rice fields. Sulfate amendment is a mitigation strategy to reduce methane emissions from rice fields because sulfate reducers and methanogens compete for the same substrates. Cable bacteria are filamentous bacteria known to increase sulfate levels via electrogenic sulfide oxidation. Here we show that one-time inoculation of rice-vegetated soi ...[more]
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