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Indoor green can modify the indoor dust microbial communities
Little is known about the potential role of indoor plants in shaping the indoor microbiota. Within the ENVIRONAGE birth cohort, we collected settled dust and performed 16S and ITS amplicon sequencing and qPCR measurements to characterize the indoor microbiota, including bacterial and fungal loads and Chao1 richness, Shannon, and Simpson diversity indices. For 155 households, we obtained information on the number of indoor plants. We performed linear regression models adjusted for several a priori chosen covariables. Overall, an increase in indoor plants and density was associated with increased microbial diversity, but not load. For example, we found an increase of 64 (95%CI:3;125) and 26 (95%CI:4;48) units of bacterial and fungal taxa richness, respectively, in households with more than three plants compared to no plants. Our results support the hypothesis that indoor plants can enrich indoor microbial diversity, while impacts on microbial loads are not obvious.
Indoor green can modify the indoor dust microbial communities
Little is known about the potential role of indoor plants in shaping the indoor microbiota. Within the ENVIRONAGE birth cohort, we collected settled dust and performed 16S and ITS amplicon sequencing and qPCR measurements to characterize the indoor microbiota, including bacterial and fungal loads and Chao1 richness, Shannon, and Simpson diversity indices. For 155 households, we obtained information on the number of indoor plants. We performed linear regression models adjusted for several a priori chosen covariables. Overall, an increase in indoor plants and density was associated with increased microbial diversity, but not load. For example, we found an increase of 64 (95%CI:3;125) and 26 (95%CI:4;48) units of bacterial and fungal taxa richness, respectively, in households with more than three plants compared to no plants. Our results support the hypothesis that indoor plants can enrich indoor microbial diversity, while impacts on microbial loads are not obvious.
Indoor green can modify the indoor dust microbial communities
Dockx, Yinthe (Autor:in) / Täubel, Martin (Autor:in) / Bijnens, Esmée M. (Autor:in) / Witters, Katrien (Autor:in) / Valkonen, Maria (Autor:in) / Jayaprakash, Balamuralikrishna (Autor:in) / Hogervorst, Janneke (Autor:in) / Nawrot, Tim S. (Autor:in) / Casas, Lidia (Autor:in)
Indoor Air ; 32
01.03.2022
11 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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