Anaerobic digester microbiology: communities, dynamics and molecular diagnosis
Inside a digester live hundreds of species of microorganisms organised into four large groups: hydrolytic, acidogenic and acetogenic bacteria, and methanogenic archaea. A stable digester harbours between 150 and 500 different species and up to 10¹⁰ cells per millilitre. Knowing that community, now accessible with molecular techniques (qPCR, 16S, metagenomics), makes it possible to understand […]