Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a new type of microbial named "Chinese Microbacteria"

BEIJING, March 27 (Xinhua Sun Selffa) China's
Institute of Microbiology announced on the 27th that the institute's researchers recently found a wide range of new microorganisms widely found in urban sewage treatment systems, and its classification as "Casimicrobiaceae" section.
the researchers pointed out that the existing results show that "Chinese microbacteria" not only exist in China's sewage treatment plants, more widely in urban sewage treatment plants around the world in the activated sludge, is one of the most wanted to separate culture of the active sludge core bacteria. The discovery and naming of "Chinese micro-bacteria" will provide germ resources for the elimination of nitrogen, phosphorus and various organic pollutants by microorganisms in activated sludge, and lay the foundation for improving the technical level of sewage treatment and developing a new generation of activated sludge process.
According to
Microbiology, more than 90% of the global urban sewage treatment systems, including China, are with activated sludge process, microorganisms are the main force for the effective removal of various pollutants of activated sludge, 10 of 12 per g of activated sludge Sub-microbial cells, but the complexity of the active sludge microbiome is much higher than that of the mammalian gut microbiome, according to the latest research results, 99.9% of the microbial species in the activated sludge have not been isolated and cultured, so it is not possible to understand and understand the important role of these microorganisms.
2017 "China Microbiome Program" pre-research project started, as a project support unit,
microorganisms undertake the project human body, experimental animals, activated sludge and other research, activated sludge microbiome is one of the important content. In 2019, the Ministry of Science and Technology will also deploy the research content of synthetic activated sludge microbiome in the national key research and development plan.
The "Chinese Microbacteria" is named to commemorate the
launch of the "China Microbiome Program" pre-research project, the first species of such microorganisms, "Huifang Chinese Microbacteria" is from the Beijing Qinghe sewage treatment plant activated sludge isolated culture, named from the late well-known Chinese environmental microbiologist Mr. Yang Fang.
It is understood that the discovery and research work of "Chinese microbacteria" is mainly carried out by Song Yang, a doctoral student jointly trained by the
Microbiology Institute and the
Ecological Environment Research Center, and the relevant results paper has been published in the professional academic journal Application and Environmental Microbiology, and the author of the paper newsletter is Liu Shuangjiang Researcher and Wang Aijie Researcher.