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Amendment soil with biochar to control antibiotic resistance genes under unconventional water resources irrigation: Proceed with caution

Cui, Er-Ping, Gao, Feng, Liu, Yuan, Fan, Xiang-Yang, Li, Zhong-Yang, Du, Zhen-Jie, Hu, Chao, Neal, Andrew L.·2018·Environmental Pollution
DOI 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.04.143
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The spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) has become a cause for serious concern because of its potential risk to public health. The use of unconventional water resources (e.g., reclaimed water or piggery wastewater) in agriculture to relieve groundwater shortages may result in an accumulation of ARGs in soil. Biochar addition has been proven to be a beneficial method to alleviate the pollution of ARGs in manure-amended soil. However, the role of biochar on ARGs in soil-plant systems repeatedly irrigated with unconventional water resources is unknown. Under reclaimed water or piggery wastewater irrigation, rhizobox experiments using maize plants in soil amended with biochar were conducted to investigate the variation of typical ARGs (tet and sul genes) in soil-plant systems during a 60-day cultivation, and ARGs was characterized by high-throughput qPCR with a 48 (assays) × 108 (samples) array. Only piggery wastewater irrigation significantly increased the abundance of ARGs in rhizosphere and bulk soils and root endophytes. Following 30-day cultivation, the abundance of ARGs in soil was significantly lower due to biochar addition. However, by day 60, the abundance of ARGs in soil supplemented with biochar was significantly higher than in the control soils. Antibiotics, bio-available heavy metals, nutrients, bacterial community, and mobile gene elements (MGEs) were detected and analyzed to find factors shaping ARGs dynamics. The behavior of ARGs were associated with anti…

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Authors
Cui, E.-P., Gao, F., Liu, Y., Fan, X.-Y., Li, Z.-Y., Du, Z.-J., Hu, C., & Neal, A. L.
Affiliations
  • Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CN)
  • Rothamsted Research (GB)
Corresponding author
Gao, Feng
ORCID
Venue
Environmental Pollution
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-09
Volume
240
Pages
475-484
ISSN
0269-7491 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.envpol.2018.04.143
OpenAlex
W2801104987
Cited by
99
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3.40
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journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Environmental Pollution (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Rothamsted Repository (Rothamsted Repository) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund (Farmland Irrigation Research Institute, CAAS) (FIRI2017-14)
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China (51479201, 41701265)
  • Scientific and Technological Project of Henan Province (172102110121)
  • Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Program (ASTIP) of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
  • BBSRC-funded Soil to Nutrition strategic programme (BBS/E/C/000I0310)
  • Natural Environment Research Council
  • BBSRC
  • Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems research programme (NE/N018125/1 LTS-M)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Pollution › Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Microbiology (medical) › Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
Keywords
antibiotic resistance genes, biochar, non-conventional water resources, irrigation water reuse, soil-plant system, rhizosphere, root endophytes, tet genes, sul genes, mobile genetic elements, available phosphorus, soil bacterial communities, maize
MeSH terms
Anti-Bacterial Agents, Bacteria, Charcoal, Zea mays, Drug Resistance, Microbial, Genes, Bacterial, Manure, Phosphorus, Soil, Soil Microbiology, Interspersed Repetitive Sequences, Rhizosphere, Wastewater, Water Resources

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Cui, E.-P., Gao, F., Liu, Y., Fan, X.-Y., Li, Z.-Y., Du, Z.-J., Hu, C., & Neal, A. L. (2018). Amendment soil with biochar to control antibiotic resistance genes under unconventional water resources irrigation: Proceed with caution. Environmental Pollution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.04.143