Abstract
Candidatus Methylomirabilis-related bacteria conduct anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) coupling with NO2− reduction, and Candidatus Methanoperedens-related archaea perform AOM coupling with reduction of diverse electron acceptors, including NO3−, Fe (III), Mn (IV) and SO42−. Application of nitrogen fertilization favors the growth of these methanotrophs in agricultural fields. Here, we explored the vertical variations in community structure and abundance of the two groups of methanotrophs in a nitrogen-rich vegetable field via using illumina MiSeq sequencing and quantitative PCR. The retrieved Methylomirabilis-related sequences had 91.12%-97.32% identity to the genomes of known Methylomirabilis species, and Methanoperedens-related sequences showed 85.49%-97.48% identity to the genomes of known Methanoperedens species which are capable of conducting AOM coupling with reduction of NO3− or Fe (III). The Methanoperedens-related archaeal diversity was significantly higher than Methylomirabilis-related bacteria, with totally 74 and 16 operational taxonomic units, respectively. In contrast, no significant difference in abundance between the bacteria (9.19 × 103–3.83 × 105 copies g−1 dry soil) and the archaea (1.55 × 104–3.24 × 105 copies g−1 dry soil) was observed. Furthermore, the abundance of both groups of methanotrophs exhibited a strong vertical variation, which peaked at 30–40 and 20–30 cm layers, respectively. Soil water content and pH were the key factors influencing Methylomirabilis-related bacterial diversity and abundance, respectively. For the Methanoperedens-related archaea, both soil pH and ammonium content contributed significantly to the changes of these archaeal diversity and abundance. Overall, we provide the first insights into the vertical distribution and regulation of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea in vegetable soils.
Key points
• The archaeal diversity was significantly higher than bacterial.
• There was no significant difference in the abundance between bacteria and archaea.
• The abundance of bacteria and archaea peaked at 30–40 and 20–30 cm, respectively.
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Introduction
The process of nitrite-driven anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) is mediated by the NC10 phylum bacteria that are closely associated with Candidatus Methylomirabilis oxyfera (Ettwig et al. 2010), Candidatus Methylomirabilis sinica (He et al. 2016) or Candidatus Methylomirabilis lanthanidiphila (Versantvoort et al. 2018), which can oxidize methane (CH4) through the intra-aerobic pathway using NO2− as the electron acceptor (Ettwig et al. 2010). The nitrate-driven AOM is performed by the anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME)—ANME-2d that are closely associated with Candidatus Methanoperedens nitroreducens, oxidizing CH4 via the pathway of reverse methanogenesis with NO3− as the electron acceptor (Haroon et al. 2013). Furthermore, Methanoperedens-related archaea were also reported to have the capability to conduct AOM coupling with Fe (III) (Ettwig et al. 2016; Cai et al. 2018; Li et al. 2021; Chen et al. 2022; Zhang et al. 2023), Mn (IV) (Leu et al. 2020) and SO42− reduction (Nie et al. 2021). The discovery of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea greatly extends the understanding of the microbial CH4 cycle.
Currently, a lot of studies demonstrated that Methylomirabilis-related bacteria were present in freshwater wetlands sediments (Zhu et al. 2015; Shen et al. 2017a; Xie et al. 2020b), water columns or sediments of lakes (Graf et al. 2018; Yang et al. 2018; Mayr et al. 2020), reservoirs sediments (Wang et al. 2016; Long et al. 2017a; Shen et al. 2020b), rivers (Shen et al. 2014b, 2019; Long et al. 2017b), paddy fields (Wang et al. 2012; Vaksmaa et al. 2016; Yang et al. 2022) and coastal sediments (Zhang et al. 2018; Wang et al. 2019; Zheng et al. 2020). Furthermore, there is increasing evidence that Methanoperedens-related archaea occur in different habitats, including freshwater wetlands (Shen et al. 2017a; Huang et al. 2020; Xie et al. 2020b), freshwater aquatic systems (Weber et al. 2017; Shen et al. 2019, 2020b), paddy fields (Vaksmaa et al. 2016; Shen et al. 2021b) and coastal wetlands (Zheng et al. 2020; Chen et al. 2021; Niu et al. 2022). The widespread distribution of the two groups of methanotrophs in diverse environments suggests their potential importance in regulating global CH4 emissions.
Agriculture releases a significant amount of CH4, which accounts for 52% of global emissions from anthropogenic sources (Smith et al. 2008). China’s vegetable production accounts for 49% of global production (Jia et al. 2012), and vegetable soils occupy about 11.4% of China’s total planting area and are a major sink of CH4 for the croplands. Until now, some researchers have examined the CH4 flux from vegetable fields (Jia et al. 2012; Qi et al. 2020; Fan et al. 2021b). Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea are novel players in controlling CH4 emissions from paddy (Vaksmaa et al. 2016; Yang et al. 2023) and upland fields (Zhu et al. 2018). However, there is no study has reported the distribution of the two groups of anaerobic methanotrophs in vegetable soils, and therefore whether these methanotrophs are present and their distribution characteristics in vegetable soils are poorly known. For promoting crop yields, vegetable fields receive intensive nitrogen (N) fertilization, and the total rate of fertilization was reported to be 300–700 kg N ha−1 during individual vegetable growing seasons in China (Zheng et al. 2004; He et al. 2009). Theoretically, the high-input of N fertilizers into vegetable soils can make them as suitable habitats for the two groups of methanotrophs. In addition, the physicochemical properties vary with soil depths in vegetable fields (Chen et al. 2014; Zhao et al. 2019; Qin et al. 2020), which has been shown to have a great impact on the communities and function of soil microorganisms (Shen et al. 2017c; Zhao et al. 2019; Qin et al. 2020). Here, we hypothesized that the vertical variation in soil properties can also affect the abundance and community structures of the two groups of methanotrophs.
To explore the distribution characteristics of Methylomirabilis-related bacterial and Methanoperedens-related archaeal communities in vegetable fields, the vertical variations in their community composition, diversity and abundance were examined along the soil profile (0–100 cm). In addition, the vertical variation in soil properties was also examined to explore its impact on these anaerobic methanotrophs.
Materials and methods
Soil sampling
Soils were retrieved from a vegetable field which experienced periodic drying and wetting as previously reported (Shen et al. 2017c), and the sample site (32°12′N, 118°43′E) was located in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, China. Five soil cores (0–100 cm) were taken from the field, and then sliced into 10 layers with an interval of 10 cm.
DNA isolation and PCR amplification
The soil genomic DNA was exacted via the E.Z.N.A.® Soil DNA Kit (Omega Bio-tek, Norcross, GA, US). The pmoA and mcrA are two important functional genes of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea, respectively (Ettwig et al. 2010; Vaksmaa et al. 2017b). In this study, a nested PCR approach with the primers of A189_b-cmo682 (for first PCR round) and cmo182-cmo568 (for the second PCR round) was employed to amplify the pmoA genes of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria. However, no positive PCR products can be generated from any examined soil samples. Instead, the 16S rRNA genes of these bacteria were successfully amplified through a nested PCR approach using the primers of 202F-1545R (for the first PCR round) and qp1f-qp2r (for the second round) (Table S1), and the PCR thermal cycle programs were conducted by referring to the protocol reported previously (Shen et al. 2017a). The archaeal mcrA genes were also amplified through a nest PCR approach using the primers of McrA169F-McrA1360R (for the first round) and McrA997F-McrA1360R (for the second round) (Table S1), and the thermal cycle programs were conducted according to Shen et al. (2017a). Through the nested PCR protocols, the average amplification lengths of the bacterial 16S rRNA genes and the archaeal mcrA genes were 418 bp and 318 bp, respectively. Purified amplicons with correct size were used to construct the Methylomirabilis-related bacterial 16S rRNA gene and Methanoperedens-related archaeal mcrA gene libraries on the Illumina MiSeq (PE300) sequencing platform.
Sequencing data processing
Methylomirabilis-related bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences and Methanoperedens-related archaeal mcrA gene sequences were denoised, and the operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were generated. Methylomirabilis-related and Methanoperedens-related OTUs were clustered with 97% (Tian et al. 2021) and 95% (Shen et al. 2021b) sequence similarity cutoff, respectively, using UPARSE. The taxonomic assignments of the recovered OTUs were performed by RDP Classifier. Furthermore, each OTU’s representative sequences were aligned in GenBank to exclude any non-Methylomirabilis-related or non-Methanoperedens-related sequences (Zhang et al. 2022). In accordance with the previous studies (Tian et al. 2021; Xu et al. 2018), the 16S rRNA gene sequences showing > 90% identity to known Methylomirabilis species (Ettwig et al. 2010; He et al. 2016), and the mcrA gene sequences showing > 80% identity to known Methanoperedens species (Haroon et al. 2013; Berger et al. 2017; Cai et al. 2018; Leu et al. 2020) were remained. In order to ensure the evenness and consistency of data, sequences from each sample were normalized at the same sequencing depth. Subsequently, Chao1 estimators and Shannon index were calculated for assessing alpha diversity. The vertical distribution of communities of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea was examined at the OTU level.
Phylogenetic analyses
The top 10 Methylomirabilis-related OTUs (occupying > 99% of the total sequences), and the top 20 Methanoperedens-related OTUs (occupying > 88% of the total sequences) were used to construct the phylogenetic trees using the neighbour-joining method by software MEGA 6. Additionally, some sequences deposited in the GenBank database that were closely related to our obtained sequences were also included in the phylogenetic analyses.
Quantitative PCR
The copy numbers of Methylomirabilis-related 16S rRNA genes and Methanoperedens-related mcrA genes were analyzed through quantitative PCR (qPCR) method. The primers of qp1f-qp1r and McrA159F-McrA345R (Table S1) were employed to quantify the 16S rRNA and mcrA gene abundance, respectively (Ettwig et al. 2009; Shen et al. 2021b). The standard curves for quantifying the gene abundance of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea in individual samples were established according to a series of dilutions of pMD18-T simple plasmid vector containing the target gene.
Statistical analyses
Principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) and canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) were employed to examine the vertical variations in Methylomirabilis-related bacterial or Methanoperedens-related archaeal communities and their potential relationships with soil properties, respectively. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was employed to examine the vertical variation in abundance of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria or Methanoperedens-related archaea. Pearson correlation analysis was applied to study the relationships among the diversity, abundance of these anaerobic methanotrophs and different soil factors. The above analyses were performed using the SPSS 25 software or R software.
Results
Detection of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea
Positive PCR products of Methylomirabilis-related bacterial 16S rRNA genes were obtained at 0–80 cm soil layers, while no positive products can be retrieved at 80–100 cm layers. Miseq sequencing generated a total of 148,737 sequences from 0–80 cm layers. After discarding the non-Methylomirabilis-related sequences and normalizing at the same depth, each sample had 13,038 effective sequences (Table 1). In contrast, positive PCR products of Methanoperedens-related archaeal mcrA genes were retrieved throughout 0–100 cm layers, and a total of 224,008 sequences were recovered from these layers. Each sample contained 15,063 effective sequences after discarding non-Methanoperedens-related sequences and normalization (Table 1).
Diversity of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea
The coverage values of Methylomirabilis-related and Methanoperedens-related sequences were both greater than 99% (Table 1), suggesting our sequencing results can well represent the diversity of these methanotrophs. Sixteen OTUs of Methylomirabilis-related 16S rRNA genes were generated from the soil samples according to 97% sequence similarity cut-off, and each sample had 8–13 OTUs (Table 1). The ranges of Chao1 estimators and Shannon index were 8–13 and 0.90–1.57, respectively, in individual samples (Table 1). For the Methanoperedens-related archaea, totally 74 OTUs of mcrA genes were recovered according to 95% sequence similarity cut-off. The ranges of OTU numbers, Chao1 estimators and Shannon index of these archaeal mcrA genes varied from 29 to 61, 30 to 61 and 2.22 to 3.17, respectively, in individual samples (Table 1), which were all significantly greater than those of Methylomirabilis-related bacterial 16S rRNA genes (Fig. 1A). Moreover, no obvious vertical variation in diversity of the bacteria or the archaea was observed.
Community composition of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea
It was found that the OTU7 was the most dominant Methylomirabilis-related lineage at the soil layers of 10–20 and 40–80 cm. For the layers of 20–40 cm, the OTU7 and OTU34 co-dominated the bacterial communities. The OTU7 and OTU4 were the co-dominant lineages at the layer of 0–10 cm (Fig. 2A). The top 10 Methylomirabilis-related OTUs (occupying 99.8% of the total sequences) were classified into two separate clusters (Fig. 3A). Sequences from Cluster A showed 92.24%-97.32% and 91.12%-95.89% identities to the reported genome sequences of Methylomirabilis oxyfera and Methylomirabilis sinica, respectively (Table S2). These sequences were most closely associated with the Methylomirabilis-related sequences detected in wetland soils (Hu et al. 2014; Shen et al. 2015; Zhu et al. 2015) and river sediments (Shen et al. 2014b), with 95.32%-100% identity (Table S2). Sequences from Cluster B (occupying over 85% of the total sequences) exhibited 92.46%-94.16% and 92.01%-93.05% identities to the genome sequences of Methylomirabilis oxyfera and Methylomirabilis sinica, respectively (Table S2). This cluster was most closely associated with the Methylomirabilis-related sequences reported in wetland soils (Zhu et al. 2015), peatlands (Zhong et al. 2020) and estuarine sediments (Yan et al. 2015), with 98.08%-99.76% identity (Table S2).
For the Methanoperedens-related archaeal communities, the OTU10 was the most dominant lineage at the soil layer of 0–10 cm, and OTU12 was the most dominant lineage at the layer of 10–20 cm. The OTU49 dominated the archaeal communities at the layer of 30–40 cm, and OTU49 and OTU9 co-dominated the communities at the layer of 20–30 cm. For the layers of 40–60 cm, the communities were co-dominated by OTU49, OTU64 and OTU12, and the OTU49 and OTU64 co-dominated the communities at the layers of 60–100 cm (Fig. 2B). The top 20 OTUs (occupying 88.1% of the total sequences) were classified into three different clusters (Fig. 3B). The OTU6 and OTU9 in Cluster A were associated with the genome sequence of Methanoperedens sp. ANME2D, with 85.49%-91.17% identity (Table S3), while the remaining OTUs (OTU64, OTU32, OTU45, OTU57, OTU52, OTU72 and OTU59) in this cluster were associated with the genome sequence of Methanoperedens sp. Mnv1, with 93.69%-97.48% identity (Table S2). Sequences from Cluster B were all associated with the genome sequence of Methanoperedens ferrireducens, with 93.06%-95.58% identity (Table S3). Sequences from Cluster C were also associated with the genome sequence of Methanoperedens ferrireducens, with 87.74%-90.85% identity (Table S3).
Abundance of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea
The Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea were present at every soil layer examined (Fig. 4). The gene abundance of Methylomirabilis-related bacterial 16S rRNA varied between 9.19 × 103 and 3.83 × 105 copies g−1 dry soil, peaking at the 30–40 cm layer and then decreased sharply with depth (Fig. 4A). The Methanoperedens-related archaeal mcrA gene abundance ranged between 1.55 × 104 and 3.24 × 105 copies g−1 dry soil. The mcrA gene abundance peaked at the 20–30 cm layer (Fig. 4B). The ratio of the abundance of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria to Methanoperedens-related archaea was 0.38 (at 50–60 cm layer)-5.95 (at 20–30 cm layer), but there was no significant variation in overall abundance between the two groups of anaerobic methanotrophs (Fig. 1B).
Factors affecting the communities and abundance of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea
The soil physicochemical characteristics have been reported previously (Shen et al. 2017c). The soil water content varied between 23.4% and 34.1%, and pH varied from 6.2 to 6.8. Contents of both soil NH4+ and NO3− decreased with depth, and their contents were in the ranges of 0.8–16.7 and 0.2–25.4 mg N kg−1, respectively. Contents of soil total nitrogen (TN) and organic carbon (OrgC) were 0.8–1.5 and 8.6–16.5 g kg−1, respectively. The RDA indicated that the soil factors of water content, NH4+, NO3−, TN and OrgC contents had significant impacts on the vertical distribution of Methylomirabilis-related bacterial community composition (Fig. 5A). The soil pH, water content, NO3−, TN and OrgC contents had significant impacts on the vertical distribution of Methanoperedens-related archaeal community composition (Fig. 5B). Furthermore, the above factors also had significant impacts on the proportions of dominant OTUs of the bacteria (Fig. 6A) or the archaea (Fig. 6B).
The soil water content was negatively associated (p < 0.05) with the Shannon index of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria (Table 2). The soil pH was negatively associated (p < 0.05) with both Chao1 estimators and of OTU numbers of Methanoperedens-related archaea, while the NH4+ content was positively associated (p < 0.05) with the two diversity indexes. In addition, the abundance of both Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea was negatively associated (p < 0.05) with soil pH, and the later was also positively associated (p < 0.05) with NH4+ content. The bacterial abundance correlated well (p < 0.05) with the archaeal abundance (Figure S1), with their abundance ratio being positively associated (p < 0.05) with pH.
Discussion
The anaerobic methanotrophs of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea were reported to be novel players in mitigating CH4 emissions from paddy ecosystems (Shen et al. 2014a; Vaksmaa et al. 2016; Fan et al. 2021a). Thus far, the distribution and community composition of the two groups of anaerobic methanotrophs in vegetable fields is poorly known. Here, we provide the first evidence for the co-occurrence of the two groups of methanotrophs in different depths of vegetable soils. The number of OTUs of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria ranged from 8 to 13 in individual soil samples according to 3% sequence divergence, which was lower than that (7–33 OTUs in individual samples) reported in paddy soils (Shen et al. 2021a; Tian et al. 2021) using the same sequencing approach. The soil water content was negatively related to the Shannon index of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria (Table 2), suggesting that a lower level of water content allows the distribution of more diverse lineages of these bacteria. This is not consistent with the results reported in mangrove sediment, where sediment water content showed a positive effect on Methylomirabilis-related bacterial diversity (Zhang et al. 2018).
Compared to Methylomirabilis-related bacteria, a significantly higher Methanoperedens-related archaeal diversity (29–61 OTUs in individual samples) was detected in the studied soils (Fig. 1A). Currently, the NO2− was reported to be the only electron acceptor that can be used via Methylomirabilis-related bacteria (Ettwig et al. 2010). However, diverse electron acceptors, including NO3−, Fe (III), Mn (IV) and SO42−, can be used via Methanoperedens-related archaea (Haroon et al. 2013; Ettwig et al. 2016; Cai et al. 2018; Leu et al. 2020; Li et al. 2021; Nie et al. 2021; Chen et al. 2022). The potential of Methanoperedens-related archaea to use multiple electron acceptors could contribute to their relatively higher diversity compared to Methylomirabilis-related bacteria. The higher mcrA gene diversity also indicates that different AOM pathways catalyzing by Methanoperedens-related archaea may co-occur in the examined soils. The mcrA gene diversity detected in our study was higher than that in paddy soils (3–20 OTUs for each sample, with 95% similarity cutoff) (Shen et al. 2021b), wetland soils (1–26 OTUs for each sample, with 95% similarity cutoff) (Shen et al. 2022) and coastal wetlands (7–12 OTUs for each sample, with 97% similarity cutoff) (Chen et al. 2020). The soil pH and NH4+ content were two key factors impacting the Methanoperedens-related archaeal diversity in the studied soils (Table 2). The soil pH has been found to have a great effect on the diversity of these archaea in freshwater wetland soils (Shen et al. 2022). The soil NH4+ may affect Methanoperedens-related archaeal diversity through influencing the nitrification potential, which can produce NO3− for these archaea.
Phylogenetic analysis showed two distinct clusters of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria (Fig. 3A). The majority of the dominant OTUs exhibited 91.12%-94.16% identity (Table S2) to the 16S rRNA genes of known Methylomirabilis species, while only OTU36 (occupying 0.5% of the total sequences) exhibited a relatively higher identity (95.89%-97.32%) to the known species. Our results is consistent with the results reported in paddy fields, where only a minor part of the retrieved Methylomirabilis-related sequences showed greater than 95% identity to the known Methylomirabilis species (Shen et al. 2021a; Tian et al. 2021). Among the dominant OTUs, the proportions of OTU34 and OTU26 were significantly positively associated with Methylomirabilis-related bacterial 16S rRNA gene abundance (Fig. 6A). Nevertheless, it should be mentioned that no positive PCR products of pmoA genes of these bacteria can be recovered from any examined soil samples. Hence, the actual role of nitrite-driven AOM in methane oxidation and the main species responsible for this process in vegetable soils need to be further explored. RDA results suggested that the soil water content, NO3− and OrgC contents exhibited significant effects on the Methylomirabilis-related bacterial community (Fig. 5A). These soil factors may greatly alter the availability of NO2− or CH4 for Methylomirabilis-related bacteria via affecting denitrification and methanogenesis (Shen et al. 2021a), and NO2− and CH4 were also reported to impact the vertical distribution of Methylomirabilis-related bacterial community in paddy soils (Hui et al. 2017; Vaksmaa et al. 2017c; Tian et al. 2021).
A total of three clusters that were closely related to the genomes of Methanoperedens sp. Mnv1 and Methanoperedens sp. ANME2D (Fig. 3B) which were reported to conduct AOM coupling with NO3− reduction or Methanoperedens ferrireducens (Fig. 3B) which was reported to conduct AOM coupling with Fe (III) reduction were detected. The presence of these distinct clusters further suggests the co-occurrence of different methane-oxidizing pathways driven by Methanoperedens-related archaea. Shen et al. (Shen et al. 2019) have reported that different active pathways of AOM coupling with NO2−, NO3−, Fe3+ and SO42− reduction co-occurred in anoxic riverbed sediments. In agroecosystems, Vaksmaa et al (2017a) reported nitrate-driven AOM activity and the occurrence of Methanoperedens-related archaea in an Italian paddy soil. Fan et al (2020) identified multiple AOM pathways driven by various electron acceptors (NO3−, Fe3+, SO42−, and humic acids) in a Chinese paddy field, and also showed the presence of Methanoperedens-related archaea (Fan et al. 2021a). Here, all the examined soil factors had important impacts on the community composition of Methanoperedens-related archaea (Fig. 5B). A previous study indicated that the sharp decrease of NH4+ content and OrgC content with the soil depth had a great effect on the vertical distribution of community composition of Methanoperedens-related archaea in paddy soils (Shen et al. 2021b). Recently, Shen et al. (Shen et al. 2022) reported that the soil water content significantly affected these archaeal community composition in freshwater wetland soils.
Quantitative PCR suggested the co-occurrence of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea throughout 0–100 cm layers, although very low abundance of these methanotrophs was observed at deep layers (80–100 cm) (Fig. 4). This reduced abundance of these methanotrophs in the 80–100 cm layers can be attributed to the comparatively lower nitrate content (0.2–0.5 mg N kg−1) in these layers in contrast to the levels found in the 0–80 cm layers (0.9–25.4 mg N kg−1). The diminished nitrate content in the deep layers may act as a limiting factor for the growth of Methanoperedens-related archaea and the symbiotic Methylomirabilis-related bacteria. The gene abundance of Methylomirabilis-related bacterial 16S rRNA ranged between 9.19 × 103 and 3.83 × 105 copies g−1 dry soil, which was lower than the range (103–107 copies g−1 dry soil) reported in rice paddies (Wang et al. 2012; Shen et al. 2014a; Hui et al. 2017; Vaksmaa et al. 2017c; Tian et al. 2021). Although both vegetable and paddy fields receive intensive N fertilizers, the frequent water-logging condition in paddies can provide more anoxic environments for Methylomirabilis-related bacteria. Furthermore, the abundance of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria exhibited a strong vertical variation, with a higher abundance being recorded in 20–30 cm soils (Fig. 4A). Some previous studies reported an obvious vertical variation in Methylomirabilis-related bacterial abundance in paddy fields (Wang et al. 2012; Shen et al. 2014a; Hui et al. 2017). Wang et al. (2012) found a higher abundance of these bacteria in upper 40 cm paddy soils, while Hui et al. (2017) showed a higher abundance in 40–60 cm soils. The detected abundance of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria was negatively related to the soil pH (Table 2). The pH ranged from 6.2 to 6.8 in the studied soils, indicating that this bacterial growth favored under weak acidic conditions. These bacterial abundance was also shown to be negatively related to sediment pH in estuarine wetlands (Chen et al. 2021).
A similar range of Methanoperedens-related mcrA gene abundance was detected, varying from 1.55 × 104 to 3.24 × 105 copies g−1 dry soil, which was lower than that (103–107 copies g−1 dry soil) reported in rice paddies (Shen et al. 2021b; Vaksmaa et al. 2017c). An obvious vertical change of Methanoperedens-related archaeal abundance was found, with the abundance peaking at 30–40 cm layer (Fig. 4B). In upland fields, like vegetable soils, though with a high NO3− concentration, intermittent flooding indicates that the surface soil layer experiences periodic aerobic-anoxic conditions (Nie et al. 2018), which can negatively affect the growth of Methanoperedens-related archaea. These archaeal abundance was also reported to be increased with soil depth in a paddy field, with higher value in 20–40 cm soils (Shen et al. 2021b). Here, the soil pH and NH4+ content were negatively and positively correlated with Methanoperedens-related archaeal abundance, respectively (Table 2). A recent study demonstrated that these archaeal abundance was also negatively related to soil pH in freshwater wetland soils (Shen et al. 2022). A relatively higher NH4+ content can stimulate the nitrification potential, which produce sufficient NO3− for Methanoperedens-related archaea and then promote these archaeal growth. However, the abundance of Methanoperedens-related archaea exhibited a weak positive correlation with the content of soil NO3− (Table 2). This can be caused by the competition of NO3− between Methanoperedens-related archaea and denitrifiers.
In addition, there was no significant variation in overall abundance between the two groups of anaerobic methanotrophs (Fig. 1B), and their abundance correlated well in the examined soils (Figure S1), suggesting the cooperation between the two groups of methanotrophs. Although they may compete for the common substrate of CH4, Methanoperedens-related archaea can produce NO2− for Methylomirabilis-related bacteria through NO3− reduction. Some previous studies also found that the abundance of the two groups of methanotrophs was significantly positively correlated in riverbed (Shen et al. 2019) and coastal wetland sediments (Niu et al. 2022).
Overall, this study provided molecular biological evidence supporting the existence of the two groups of anaerobic methanotrophs across varying depths of vegetable soils. Although previous studies have demonstrated higher AOM activity driven by nitrite or nitrate was correlated with higher gene abundance of Methylomirabilis-related bacteria or Methanoperedens-related archaea, across diverse ecosystems such as marsh wetland sediments (Shen et al. 2017b), freshwater reservoirs (Shen et al. 2020a), and Tibetan alpine wetlands (Xie et al. 2020a). The extent of nitrite- or nitrate-driven AOM activity carried out by the two groups of anaerobic methanotrophs, along with their proportional role in reducing CH4 emissions from vegetable soils remain unknown and require additional investigation through 13CH4 isotope tracer methodologies. Furthermore, a combination of DNA/RNA-based stable isotope probing techniques is expected to be used to elucidate the functional microbial species catalyzing each AOM pathway (Luo et al. 2021).
Data availability
The sequencing data obtained in this study has been submitted to the NCBI BioSample database, the accession numbers for Methylomirabilis-related bacteria and Methanoperedens-related archaea are SAMN36189722-SAMN36189729 and SAMN36189712-SAMN36189721, respectively.
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Shen, L., He, Y., Hu, Q. et al. Vertical distribution of Candidatus Methylomirabilis and Methanoperedens in agricultural soils. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 108, 47 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00253-023-12876-8
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