Publications by authors named "Bing-jian Cui"

Agricultural utilization of reclaimed water is considered to be an effective way to solve water shortage and reduce water environmental pollution. Silicon fertilizer can improve crop yield and quality and enhance crop resistance. The effect of foliar spray with silicon fertilizer on phyllosphere microbial communities remains lacking.

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Due to reclaimed water, irrigation can cause human health and environmental risks. Soil amendments are applied to reveal the abundance of pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in rhizosphere soil irrigated by reclaimed water and to better understand the effects of environmental factors on the rhizosphere soil bacterial composition, which has guiding significance for the reasonable use of soil amendments. In this study, the effects of biochar, bioorganic fertilizer, humic acid, loosening soil essence, and corn vinasse on bacterial community diversity and certain gene abundances in rhizosphere soil under drip irrigation with reclaimed water were studied using high-throughput assays and quantitative PCR.

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The utilization of reclaimed water is one of the most important ways of alleviating the shortage of water resources for agricultural irrigation. As an effective disposal method for biomass waste, biochar has been widely used in the improvement and remediation of agricultural environments. However, few studies have been performed on the effects of biochar application on microbial community structures and pathogen abundances in rhizosphere soils irrigated with reclaimed water.

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Reclaimed water is considered to be a reasonable and sustainable alternative water resource to improve water resource layout and mitigate the shortage of traditional water resources. Its use in irrigation will cause changes in the microbial community structure and opportunistic pathogen abundance in soils and crops, but few studies have been conducted on this subject. Peppers were used as the research subjects, and the treatments were direct irrigation of reclaimed water, mixed irrigation with freshwater and reclaimed water, rotated irrigation with freshwater and reclaimed water, with potable water irrigation as the control.

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This study aimed to discern the effect of different levels of irrigation with reclaimed water on soil enzyme activities and on the distribution of thermotolerant coliforms. The effects of two irrigation water qualities (reclaimed water and tap water) and two irrigation levels (full irrigation and insufficient irrigation) on soil enzyme activity and distribution of thermotolerant coliforms were studied through indoor soil column irrigation. Results indicated that:① Reclaimed water irrigation increased soil urease and invertase activity compared with tap water under the same irrigation conditions.

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  • The study examined how the growth of Mirabilis jalapa Linn. affects microbial communities and the breakdown of petroleum hydrocarbons in contaminated saline-alkali soil using phospholipid fatty acids analysis.
  • Results indicated a significant increase in microbial biomass in the rhizosphere of Mirabilis jalapa Linn. compared to control soils, with varying degradation rates of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPH) throughout the seasons.
  • A strong positive correlation was found between certain microbial species and TPH degradation, suggesting that the presence of Mirabilis jalapa Linn. enhances the microbial community's ability to degrade petroleum contaminants.
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Uncontrolled release and arbitrary irrigation reuse of rural wastewater may lead to water pollution, and the microbial pathogens could threaten the safety of freshwater resources and public health. To understand the microbial community structure of rural wastewater and provide the theory for microbial risk assessment of wastewater irrigation, microbial community diversities in the Membrane Bio-Reactor (MBR) process for rural wastewater treatment was studied by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) and 16S rDNA gene clone library. Meanwhile, changes of Arcobacter spp.

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  • The study examined how rice cultivation affects microbial communities in black soil in Shuangyang District, China, using phospholipid fatty acids and Biolog ECO-microplate culture methods.
  • Results indicated that organic matter content was highest in open spaces, lower in fields, and lowest in the rhizosphere. Microbial functional diversity peaked in summer compared to spring and autumn.
  • The research highlighted the timing of microbial growth stability, showing summer had the longest growth period, while winter had the shortest, providing key insights into microbial characteristics relevant to black soil health.
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In partial nitritation process, the sludge concentration was higher than 4000 mg x L(-1), DO was less than 0.2 mg x L(-1), the temperature of 15-29 degrees C, the reactor HRT of 4.6 h, and the circulation ratio was 75%, not only the microbial biomass reached the highest value but also the ratio of nitrite to ammonium of the effluent could be controlled at approximate 1.

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Anaerobic ammonium oxidation is an important part of the biological nitrogen removal process, and the performance of the process is determined by the microbial community structure. Low-temperature anaerobic ammonium oxidation technology has good prospects for saving a lot of energy, and anaerobic ammonium oxidation bacteria play a vital role in the removal of total nitrogen from waste water. To explore the microbial community structure changes of anammox reactor in sewage treatment during the cooling process (from 30 degrees C to 20 degrees), the total amount of the microbial, the quantity of anaerobic ammonium oxidation and the change of functional microbial community were investigated in a sewage treatment process using the phospholipid fatty acid method (PLFA), quantitative PCR and the clone library of bacterial 16S rRNA.

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