Metagenome or environmental sample from Soil Metagenome
soil metagenome
This work assessed the impact of bioaugmentation with a bacterial consortium and the level of contamination on the bacterial community in a soil naturally contaminated with the fungicide thiabendazole (a fungicide used in fruit-packaging plants). The impact of these two factors was determined via amplicon sequencing of the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene. The bacterial community was strongly influenced by the level of thiabendazole showing a drastically lower a diversity driven by the dominance of beta and gamma proteobacteria at the expense of all other bacterial phyla, especially Actinobacteria. On the other hand bioaugmentation did not affect the composition of the bacterial community.