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The microcosm method was used to demonstrate an increase in bacterial numbers and drastic changes in the taxonomic structure of saprotrophic bacteria as a result of mechanical grinding of Sphagnum moss. Eccrisotrophic agrobacteria predominant in untreated moss were replaced by hydrolytic bacteria. Molecular biological approaches revealed such specific hydrolytic bacteria as Janthinobacterium agaricum and Streptomyces purpurascens among the dominant taxa. The application of kinetic technique for determination of the physiological state of bacteria in situ revealed higher functional diversity of hydrolytic bacteria in ground moss than in untreated samples. A considerable decrease of the C/N ratio in ground samples of living Sphagnum incubated using the microcosm technique indicated decomposition of this substrate.
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Original Russian Text © T.G. Dobrovol’skaya, A.V. Golovchenko, A.V. Yakushev, N.A. Manucharova, E.N. Yurchenko, 2014, published in Mikrobiologiya, 2014, Vol. 83, No. 6, pp. 712–721.
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Dobrovol’skaya, T.G., Golovchenko, A.V., Yakushev, A.V. et al. Effect of mechanical grinding of Sphagnum on the structure and physiological state of bacterial communities. Microbiology 83, 820–828 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261714060058
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