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 水田生態系は、田面水、作土層土壌、作土下の下層土から成り、作土層土壌は表層数mmの作土酸化層とその下の作土還元層から成りたっています。また、水田生態系においては、浸透水がこれら各層を上から下に結びつけています。加えて、作土層には、水稲根系が発達し、多量の刈り株・残根や稲わらが鋤込まれています。これら各部位は、そこに生育する微生物にとってそれぞれ異なった環境であり、各部位に適応した微生物群集が生育しています。

 Paddy field ecosystem is composed of surface water, plowed soil layer, and subsoil, and the plowed soil layer is divided into two layers; a thin oxidized soil layer and a reduced soil layer. These soil layers are connected by percolating water. In addition, rice roots are developed, and plant residues such as rice straw and stubble after rice harvest are incorporated into the plowed soil layer. These microsites are different habitats for microorganisms, and unique microbial communities inhabit them depending on the microsites.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 水田に生息する微生物群集はウィルスに始まり、細菌、糸状菌、原生動物から構成され、各微生物は互いに影響を及ぼしあっています.例えば、地球温暖化ガス であるメタンは、メタン生成古細菌によって作られるが、その生成には共生菌の存在が不可欠です.また、生成したメタンは土壌中を移動する とともにメタン酸化菌によって分解され、メタン生成古細菌、メタン酸化菌は、そのウィルスや原生動物によって制御されています.

 本研究室では、全国各地の水田土壌を用いて、そこに生息する各種微生物の動態と微生物間相互作用を解析し、 水田生態系の生元素循環における微生物多様性と機能の実態と仕組みを解明することを目指しています。

 Microbial communities in the paddy field ecosystems, which are composed of viruses, bacteria, archaea, fungi, and protists, have an impact on each other. For example, a supply of methanogenic substrates by symbiotic anaerobic bacteria is required to produce methane gas, one of the greenhouse gases, by methanogenic archaea. Methane is oxidized by methanotrophs in oxidized aerobic soil. The dynamics of methanogenic archaeal and methane-oxidizing bacterial communities are controlled by viruses and protists.
 The dynamics of soil microorganisms and their interactions in a paddy field ecosystem are the current central themes of this research group. The aim is to elucidate the facts and mechanisms of microbial diversity and functions in the cycle of bioelements in a paddy field ecosystem.

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Main Research Topics

田土壌の物質循環と微生物

Biogeochemistry in paddy field soil

 

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  • 浅川晋 2006:水田土壌の機能と微生物群集構造,土と微生物,60(2),79-84 (J-STAGE link)

田生態系のメタン生成・酸化に関わる微生物

Methanogenic archaea and methane-oxidizing bacteria in paddy field ecosystem

 

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  • Rina Shinjo, Fumika Oe, Koki Nakagawa, Jun Murase, Susumu Asakawa, Takeshi Watanabe 2023: Type-specific quantification of particulate methane monooxygenase gene of methane-oxidizing bacteria at the oxic-anoxic interface of a surface paddy soil by digital PCR. Environ. Microbiol. Rep. 15, 392-403 (view full text)

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水田生態系の鉄酸化細菌・還元細菌に関する研究

Iron-oxidizinig bacteria and iron-reducing bacteria in paddy field ecosystem

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水田生態系に生息する各種微生物の分離と特性解明

Isolation and characterization of microorganisms inhabiting paddy field ecosystem

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分子生物学的手法による水田生態系の微生物群集の解析

Microbial community analysis in paddy field ecosystem

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水田土壌中の微生物バイオマスカリウムの動態の解明

Microbial biomass potassium in paddy field soil

 

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