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Nanomaterials in biosolids inhibit nodulation, shift microbial community composition, and result in increased metal uptake relative to bulk/dissolved metals Jonathan D Judy, David H. Mcnear, Chun Chen, Ricky W. Lewis, Olga V. Tsyusko, Paul M Bertsch, William Rao, John P Stegemeier, Gregory Victor Lowry, Steve P. Mcgrath, Mark Durenkamp, and Jason M Unrine Environ. Sci. Technol., Just Accepted Manuscript • DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b01208 • Publication Date (Web): 10 Jun 2015 Downloaded from http://pubs.acs.org on June 23, 2015
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Nanomaterials in biosolids inhibit nodulation, shift microbial community composition, and result in increased metal uptake relative to bulk/dissolved metals Jonathan D. Judy1, 2, 3, 4*, David McNear1,2, Chun Chen1, 2,3, Ricky W. Lewis,1,2, Olga V. Tsyusko1, 2, 3
, Paul M. Bertsch1, 2, 3, 5, William Rao1, John Stegemeier2, 6, Gregory V. Lowry2 3, 6, Steve P. McGrath 2,7, Mark Durenkamp2,7 and Jason M. Unrine1, 2, 3* 1
Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, 40546, USA 2
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Transatlantic Initiative for Nanotechnology and the Environment (TINE)
Center for the Environmental Implications for Nanotechnology (CEINT), Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA 4 5 6
CSIRO Land and Water, Waite Campus, Urrbrae, South Australia, 5064, Australia
CSIRO Land and Water, 41 Boggo Road, Ecosciences Precinct, Dutton Park, Queensland, 4102, Australia
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA 7
Department of Sustainable Soils and Grassland Systems, Rothamsted Research, West Common, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, AL5 2JQ, United Kingdom
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To whom correspondence may be addressed
Jason M. Unrine,
[email protected], 859-257-1657, 1100 S. Limestone St., Lexington , KY 40546
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ABSTRACT
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We examined the effects of amending soil with biosolids produced from a pilot-scale wastewater
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treatment plant containing a mixture of metal-based engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) on the
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growth of Medicago truncatula, its symbiosis with Sinorhizobium meliloti, and on soil microbial
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community structure. Treatments consisted of soils amended with biosolids generated with (1)
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Ag, ZnO, and TiO2 ENMs introduced into the influent wastewater (ENM biosolids), (2) AgNO3,
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Zn(SO4)2, and micron-sized TiO2 (dissolved/bulk metal biosolids) introduced into the influent
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wastewater stream, or with (3) no metal added to influent wastewater (control). Soils were
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amended with biosolids at a rate intended to simulate 10 years of biosolids applications which
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resulted in nominal metal concentrations of 1450, 100, and 2400 mg kg-1 Zn, Ag, and Ti,
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respectively, in the dissolved/bulk and ENM treatments.
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significantly higher in the plants grown in the ENM treatment (182 mg kg-1) compared to those
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from the bulk treatment (103 mg kg-1). Large reductions in nodulation frequency and plant
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growth, as well as soil microbial community composition were found ENM treatment compared
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to the bulk/dissolved metal treatment. These results suggest differences in metal bioavailability
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and toxicity between ENMs and bulk/dissolved metals at concentrations relevant to regulatory
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limits.
Tissue Zn concentrations were
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Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are entering waste streams in increasing quantities as the
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result of their use in an increasing variety of consumer products employing nanotechnology.1
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The majority of these ENMs have been shown to partition to the sludge within wastewater
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treatment plants (WWTP) and there is a risk of environmental harm in agroecosystems where
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biosolids are land-applied as fertilizer which has yet to be fully evaluated.2 While regulations
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exist that limit the land application of biosolids that contain elevated concentrations of certain
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metals, these regulations do not specifically consider the incorporation of metal-containing
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nanomaterials.3
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Ag, TiO2, and ZnO ENMs are some of the most commonly used ENMs in consumer products.
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Ag ENMs have widely documented anti-bacterial properties and have been incorporated into
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many products such as bandages, paint, and clothing to inhibit the growth of bacteria.4-7 TiO2
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and ZnO ENMs have broad UV-blocking properties and as a result, are widely used in sunblock
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and sunscreen, as well as pharmaceuticals, paint, coatings and other products. 8, 9 TiO2 ENMs are
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also photocatalytic and are being incorporated into building facades to degrade air pollutants. As
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a result of these applications, Ag, TiO2, and ZnO ENMs are predicted to be among the most
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prevalent ENMs within WWTP sludge.10
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In the past few years, a number of studies have examined the phytotoxicity and
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bioaccumulation of a variety of ENMs to different plant species.11, 12 The results of these studies
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have been, in many cases, contradictory, likely at least in part due to differences in exposure
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methods and in the biology between plant species.11 Also, the overwhelming majority of these
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studies have been done in hydroponics and the literature examining phytotoxicity and/or
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bioaccumulation of ENMs from soil is limited.13
As the degree to which plants can
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bioaccumulate ENMs has important implications for organisms at higher trophic levels in
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terrestrial food webs including humans, a need exists to develop our understanding of the
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bioavailability of ENMs to plants under environmentally realistic conditions.
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There have also been a relatively large number of in vitro studies conducted examining the
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anti-microbial activity of ENMs to various pathogenic bacteria and fungi.14, 15 Some of these
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studies presumably formed the basis for the previously mentioned introduction of Ag ENMs into
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consumer products.
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beneficial soil microbes, such as nitrogen-fixing bacteria, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF),
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or plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR), is limited. Considering the critical ecosystem
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services that beneficial microorganisms deliver and the possibility that they may be more
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sensitive to soil contaminants than higher organisms,16 a need exists to further examine how the
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accumulation of ENMs in soil might affect these organisms.
However, the number of studies examining the impact of ENMs on
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Furthermore, ENMs are transformed into end products fundamentally different from their
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original pristine state during processing within WWTPs.17-19 For example, the conversion of Ag
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ENMs to Ag2S ENMs has been demonstrated in several studies and Ag2S ENMs have even been
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found within municipal WWTP sludge.20, 21 More recently, Ma et al. (2013) demonstrated that
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Ag ENMs transform to Ag2S under a wide variety of WWTP conditions and biosolid treatments
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(e.g. liming, heat treatment, and composting).19 In the same study, ZnO ENMs were found to
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transform into a combination of ZnS, Zn-ferrihydrite, and Zn3(PO4)2.
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overwhelming majority of studies to date, including those currently published on beneficial soil
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microorganisms, have been conducted using as-manufactured, pristine ENMs, and very little
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information is available with which to evaluate the risk to beneficial soil microorganisms or
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terrestrial ecosystems posed by ENMs under more realistic exposure scenarios.
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In this study, we used total metals analysis of plant tissues coupled with X-ray fluorescence
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mapping to examine the bioaccumulation of Ag, TiO2, and ZnO ENMs by Medicago truncatula
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grown in biosolid amended soil.
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containing ENMs affects legume-rhizobium symbiosis and soil microbial communities. In a
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companion paper, we explore possible toxicity mechanisms by describing gene expression
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signatures and their associated biological pathways identified from the whole genome microarray
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analyses using the plant tissues.22 These experiments were conducted using biosolids generated
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by introducing ENMs into influent of a pilot scale WWTP, thus subjecting the ENMs to similar
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chemical and physical processing as would occur in a municipal scale WWTP, resulting in test
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organisms being exposed to representative ENM transformation end products. The design and
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operation of the model WWTPs, metal dosing method and characterization of the resulting
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biosolids have been previously described.19 The experiment was designed to simulate a worst
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case exposure scenario of a mixture of these three common ENMs, dosed based on the current U.
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S. EPA cumulative pollutant loading limit for Zn in biosolids-amended soils, as defined in the
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Guide to the Biosolids Risk Assessments for the EPA, Part 503 document and known
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concentrations of these metals in sewage sludge in the United States. This cumulative pollutant
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loading limit for Zn corresponded to approximately the 97th percentile of Zn concentrations in
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the U.S. Targeted National Sewage Sludge survey (TNSS).3
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concentrations had similar concentration percentiles from the TNSS since these materials are not
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regulated in biosolids in the U.S.
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Soil-sludge mixtures.
We also investigated how amending soil with biosolids
The chosen Ag and TiO2
Woburn sandy soil (Arenosol, FAO; Typic Udipsamment, US),
previously described by McGrath et al. was sieved 0.33, p 8 fold decrease in nodulation frequency observed in the ENM treatment compared to the
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bulk/dissolved metal treatment was striking given that the concentrations and XAS-based
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speciation of the metals in the bulk/dissolved metal and ENM treatments were similar.19
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Considering the role that nodulation plays in plant N acquisition, the reduced growth observed in
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the plants exposed to the ENM treatment is not surprising. We initially hypothesized that the
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reduction in nodulation was the result of either direct toxicity of the ENMs to S. meliloti or
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possibly differences in N species concentrations between the different treatments, as higher N
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content in the ENM treatment may have reduced the plant demand for N resulting in reduced
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nodulation.
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bulk/dissolved metal and ENM media (Table 1, Table S2). Also, although we inoculated the
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plants with S. meliloti, it is possible that the nodulation observed in the control and
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bulk/dissolved treatment was the result of native N-fixing bacteria which were inhibited by the
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ENMs.
However, concentrations of S. meliloti, NH4+, and NO3- were similar in the
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Alternatively, we hypothesize that the inhibition may be the result of metals, specifically Zn,
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in the ENM media being more bioavailable than those in the bulk/dissolved metal media.
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However, estimates of operationally defined bioavailable metal fractions from extracts of the
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media suggest that metals were not more available in the ENM treatment compared to the
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bulk/dissolved metal treatment (see supporting information; Table S1). These extractants also
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did not reveal a difference in the metal dissolution in the media since the differences between the
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colloidal and dissolved fractions of the extracts did not differ by treatment. Despite this, total Zn
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concentrations in the plant shoots were significantly higher in plants from the ENM treatment
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compared to those from the bulk/dissolved metal treatment, suggesting that the operationally
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defined extraction methods used were unable to capture differences in bioavailability between
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the ENM and bulk/dissolved metal treatments and highlighting the importance of pairing
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biological uptake to media extractions to adequately assess the bioavailability of a substance.
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Results from the companion study indicate that the decrease in nodulation in the ENM versus
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the control and bulk/dissolved treatment coincides with down regulation of several genes related
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to nodulation and up regulation of genes related to flavonoid biosynthesis (involved in signaling
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of rhizobia for nodulation) and oxidative stress and metal tolerance.22 Taken together, the
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increased bioaccumulation of Zn in the ENM treatment relative to the bulk/dissolved treatment
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and changes in gene expression suggest that increased uptake of Zn may have caused adverse
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effects in the plant that resulted in suppression of nodulation rather than an impact on the
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viability of the S. meliloti in the soil. Additionally, previous studies have demonstrated that M.
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truncatula nodulation is particularly sensitive to Zn exposure.31, 32
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This study is not the first to report inhibition of nitrogen-fixing bacteria by ENMs. Kumar et
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al. (2011) reported that Bradyrhizobium canariense growth was reduced by exposure to pristine
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Ag ENMs.33
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with Bradyrhizobium japonicum was not affected by ZnO or CeO2 ENMs at concentrations up to
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500 and 1000 mg kg-1, respectively, the presence of CeO2 ENMs in concentrations greater than
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500 mg kg-1 greatly inhibited the N fixation potential of root nodules.34
Priester et al. (2012) reported that while nodulation rate in soybeans inoculated
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Reports have also indicated that pristine ENMs may alter soil microbial communities. Ge et
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al. (2011) reported that the presence of pristine TiO2 and ZnO ENMs reduced soil extractable
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DNA and shifted soil microbial communities.35
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and TiO2 ENMs affect microbial communities in flooded paddy soils.36 Shah et al. (2014)
Recently, Xu et al. (2015) reported that CuO
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reported that while ZnO and Cu0 ENMs did not affect soil microbial communities, a mixture of
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Ag and TiO2 did and that the microbial community response varied with time.37 Simonen et al.
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(2015) examined the effects of TiO2 ENMs on soil microbial communities in six different soils.38
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These researchers only observed toxicity in one of the soils, a sandy clay loam, and suggested
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that the toxicity was largely driven by pH and soil organic matter.
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demonstrated that sulfidized Ag ENMs introduced into wetland mesocosms via biosolids
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amendment had significant impacts on microbial community composition and function at
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environmentally relevant (sub mg kg-1) concentrations.39
Colman et al. (2013)
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As previously mentioned, the number of studies examining the effects of ENMs on beneficial
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soil bacteria is small compared to the number examining the effects of ENMs on pathogenic
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microorganisms. Calder et al. (2012) reported that the presence of humic acid in soil pore water
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reduced the toxicity of pristine Ag ENMs to the PGPR Pseudomonas chlororaphis. Toxicity
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was otherwise largely governed by the presence of Ag ions.40 Another study examining the
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transport of quantum dots by soil mycorrhiza into Poa annua provided evidence that mycorrhiza
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may be involved with trafficking ENMs into plant roots.41 Bandyopadhyay et al. (2012) reported
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that pristine ZnO and, to a lesser degree, CeO2 ENMs were toxic to the Sinorhizobium meliloti in
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vitro.42
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However, unlike the present study, except for the work by Colman et al., the above studies
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were conducted using pristine ENMs added directly to soil or through hydroponic exposures.
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Considering that pristine ENMs will be transformed into greatly different end products by the
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time they are introduced into terrestrial ecosystems, it is unclear how effects observed in those
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studies translate to transformed materials.43
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lacked appropriate bulk/dissolved controls and/or have not attempted to determine the
Furthermore, many of the previous studies have
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contribution to toxicity of ions from ENM dissolution. By introducing ENMs into pilot WWTP
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influent and using sludge generated during a pilot-scale WWTP process for our exposures, we
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have generated treatments containing ENMs that closely represent the ENM transformation end
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products likely to be introduced into terrestrial ecosystems via land application of biosolids. It is
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also important to note that the microbial communities in the biosolids may have differed due to
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It has been suggested that because the speciation of transformation products from
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bulk/dissolved metals is similar to nano-metals in sewage sludge, the toxicity should be
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equivalent.18,
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determined by XAS spectra or by operationally defined extractant methods may not adequately
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predict toxicity of ENMs. XAS, as conducted here, measures the oxidation state and average
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coordination environment of the metal centers in the sample and as such is an Angstrom scale
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characterization. There are many other aspects of the structure of the transformation products on
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the nano/micro scale that it does not measure. For example, Zn3(PO4)2 has been identified as a
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major transformation product of ZnO during wastewater treatment.18, 19 The Zn3(PO4)2 particles
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formed during transformation in the sludge may have had different sizes between the different
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treatments. Such differences could arise from the fact that ionic Zn directly precipitates as
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Zn3(PO4)2 while ZnO ENMs must first either undergo dissolution and subsequent reprecipitation
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or undergo a surface mediated transformation of the particle surface in towards the core of the
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particle without undergoing dissolution.17 This surface mediated transformation can lead to
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transformation products that themselves are nanoparticles while dissolution and re-precipitation
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tends to yield micron scale particles, although this is difficult to characterize in complex media
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such as soil.17 The Zn3(PO4)2 products formed may have different properties, distribution within
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the soils, dissolution rates, and subsequent bioavailability of Zn in the rhizosphere.
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extraction test is designed to assess bioavailability, and presumably accounts for the different
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spatial distribution and morphological differences in the formed Zn products. However, the
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extraction tests used here were not adequate to account for these differences.
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potential modification to these procedures or alternative procedures (e.g. diffusive gradient thin
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films) to better predict metal bioavailability observed in plant uptake studies is a potential area
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for future study.
Exploring
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While the metal concentrations used in this study are high relative to near-term predicted soil
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ENM concentrations, we have clearly demonstrated that there is a distinct plant and
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microorganism response as a result of exposure to biosolids containing ENMs compared to
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biosolids containing bulk/dissolved metal of the same composition. This result suggests that soil
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accumulation of ENMs could potentially affect critical ecosystem services, agricultural
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productivity, and ultimately human well-being. However, while spiking Ag, ZnO, and TiO2
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ENMs into the sludge together generates a realistic scenario considering that these three ENMs
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will occur in the waste stream together, it remains unclear which ENM or combination of ENMs
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is responsible for the effects observed in this study. Though available data from this study and
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the companion study22 suggest that Zn is the most likely cause of differences observed in
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phytotoxicity, further investigation will be required to clarify the causative agent(s) of the
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observed effects in response to individual ENMs.
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single concentration in this study due to the limited supply of biosolids generated by the pilot
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WWTP and as a result, the concentration dependence and the effect threshold of the effects
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observed here remain unknown.
Furthermore, we were only able to test a
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Supporting information available.
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Results of media extractions, media extraction
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methodology, details of S. meliloti quantification methods, results of qPCR quantification of S.
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meliloti, information regarding interpretation of MRPP results, details of PLFA extractions and
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analysis, detail of the configuration of BL 4-1 at Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource,
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results from X-ray fluorescence mapping of leaves and X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy
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(XANES) of leaf tissue and biosolids amended soil are provided. This material is available free
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of charge at http://pubs.acs.org.
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Table 1.
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deviation calculated from n=3. BDL=below detection limit. ENM= engineered nanomaterial.
Media characterization data. Concentrations expressed as mean ± one standard
373 pH WHC (ml/100g) F- (mg kg-1) Cl- (mg kg-1) SO42- (mg kg-1) NO3- (mg kg-1) PO43- (mg kg-1) NH4+ (mg kg-1) Zn (mg kg-1) Ag (mg kg-1) Ti (mg kg-1)
Control 6.7 ± 0.01 90.7 ± 1.2 BDL 33.7 ± 1.6 603.9 ± 24.9 BDL 112.7 ± 2.6 184.2 ± 5.5 471.2 ± 27.3 2.0 ± 0.2 1180.4 ± 32.7
Bulk/dissolved 6.5 ± 0.09 90.9 ± 1.9 BDL 34.8 ± 1.6 426.5 ± 5.5 BDL 97.4 ± 0.0 173.2 ± 3.8 1484.7 ± 98.8 102.9 ± 7.4 2364.9 ± 61.8
ENM 6.7 ± 0.06 92.3 ± 1.5 BDL 33.4 ± 1.5 309.0 ± 16.8 BDL 75.7 ± 5.7 163.5 ± 2.2 1434.0 ± 87.1 98.2 ± 10.1 2466.8 ± 181.8
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Table 2. Fresh shoot biomass, dried root biomass, and shoot length measurements. Each value
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represents mean ± one standard deviation. Means with the same superscript are not significantly
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different at α=0.05. ENM= engineered nanomaterial.
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Fresh shoot biomass (mg)
Control Bulk/dissolved ENM
85.1 ± 16.4a 74.8 ± 19.3a 57.8 ± 12.6b
Dried root biomass (mg) 1.7 ± 0.8a 1.8 ± 0.6a 1.1 ± 0.5a
Shoot Length (cm) 7.0 ± 0.9a 6.7 ± 0.8a 5.7 ± 0.8b
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Table 3. Concentrations (mean ± 1 SD; nmol g-1) of various components of the soil microbial
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community. Means with the same superscript are not significantly different at α=0.05. ENM=
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386 387 Microbial Group Gram positive bacteria Gram negative bacteria Anaerobic bacteria Actinomycetes Fungi AM Fungi Eukaryotes Total
Control 207.3 ± 39.8a 531.2 ± 115.8a 4.7 ± 1.6a 64.2 ± 12.7a 66.5 ± 13.9a 33.9 ± 6.7a 55.5 ± 12.5a 963.3 ± 187.4a
Bulk/dissolved 181.4 ± 20.7b 567.4 ± 75.0a 3.9 ± 0.7b 53.7 ± 7.4b 101.4 ± 17.8b 50.8 ± 7.5b 79.5 ± 13.5b 1038.1 ± 122.9a
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Figure 1. Concentrations (left) of Ti (top), Zn (middle), and Ag (bottom) in Medicago truncatula
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shoot tissue and (right) accumulated mass of Ti (top), Zn (middle), and Ag (bottom). Treatments
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with the same letter are not significantly different from one another at α=0.05. Error bars =
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standard error. ENM= engineered nanomaterial.
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Figure 2. Nodulation frequency (number of nodules per plant). Treatments with the same letter
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are not significantly different from one another at α=0.05. Error bars = standard error. ENM=
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Figure 3. PC-ORD non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination plot using the
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3=engineered nanomaterial (ENM). Comparisons of all treatments are significantly different (A
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axis scores are shown as bioplot vectors the direction and length of which indicate the direction
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(positive or negative) and strength (longer = stronger) of the correlation. The angle between the
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vectors indicates the correlation between the biomarker group concentrations (small angles =
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higher correlation).
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Acknowledgments. The authors acknowledge the advice and assistance of J. Kupper, Z. Elhaj Baddar, J.
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Kirby, and R. Tammer. This research was funded by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection
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Agency's Science to Achieve Results (STAR) program (RD834574), by the UK Natural Environment
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Research Council grant NE/H013679/1 and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
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grant BBS/E/C/00005094. J. Unrine and O. Tsyusko were also supported by the National Science
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Foundation (NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under NSF Cooperative Agreement
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EF-0830093, Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT). Any opinions,
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findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not
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necessarily reflect the views of the NSF or the EPA. This work has not been subjected to NSF or EPA
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review and no official endorsement should be inferred. Portions of this work were performed at Beamline
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X26A, National Synchrotron Light Source (NSLS), Brookhaven National Laboratory. X26A is supported
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by the Department of Energy (DOE) - Geosciences (DE-FG02-92ER14244 to The University of Chicago
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- CARS). Use of the NSLS was supported by DOE under Contract No. DE-AC02-98CH10886. Use of
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the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is supported by
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the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Contract No.
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DE-AC02-76SF00515.
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