Metagenomics Study of the Microbes in Constructed Wetland System Treating Sewage

Usharani, Boopathy

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Metagenomics Study of the Microbes in Constructed Wetland System Treating Sewage

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Constructed wetlands are ecofriendly, cost effective technology involved in treatment of wastewaters. The goal of this study is focused on characterization of microbial community existing in constructed wetland system planted with Cyperus alternifolius treating sewage contaminated with heavy metals. The characteristics of effluent met the standards of discharge for inland use and irrigation. Microbes in constructed wetland apparently play a pivotal role in the efficiency of system for removal of organics, nutrients, suspended solids and heavy metal. To expose the active players in the lime light, a representative soil sample from the reed bed was collected and characterized for microbial community analysis. Metagenomic studies of the bacterial and fungal flora were identified. Results revealed that the phylum Proteobacteria (38.27%) and Ascomycota (77.47%) dominated in the bacterial and fungal kingdom respectively. However, in the bacterial kingdom at species level major portion remain unclassified except Pseudomonas alcaligenes but in the fungal kingdom at species level only 3.1% remain unclassified. The role of bacteria in wastewater treatment is exemplified in previous reports but the role of fungi in wastewater system needs exploration. However, the findings reveal that the identified microbes might have definitely played a vital role in wastewater treatment. The database available for the identification of bacterial species remain undiscovered for a major portion and requires up gradation. Next generation sequence being a high end technology in microbial ecology decodes the entire community in environmental samples but lack of database limits the identification. Implementation of improvements in the paucity of data bases is essential.

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International Letters of Natural Sciences (Volume 74)

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26-48

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https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILNS.74.26

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B. Usharani, "Metagenomics Study of the Microbes in Constructed Wetland System Treating Sewage", International Letters of Natural Sciences, Vol. 74, pp. 26-48, 2019

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March 2019

Authors:

Boopathy Usharani

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Bacteria, Constructed Wetland System, Fungi, Metagenomics, Next Generation Sequence

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