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- Title
The coffee-machine bacteriome: biodiversity and colonisation of the wasted coffee tray leach.
- Authors
Vilanova, Cristina; Iglesias, Alba; Porcar, Manuel
- Abstract
Microbial communities are ubiquitous in both natural and artificial environments. However, microbial diversity is usually reduced under strong selection pressures, such as those present in habitats rich in recalcitrant or toxic compounds displaying antimicrobial properties. Caffeine is a natural alkaloid present in coffee, tea and soft drinks with well-known antibacterial properties. Here we present the first systematic analysis of coffee machine-associated bacteria. We sampled the coffee waste reservoir of ten different Nespresso machines and conducted a dynamic monitoring of the colonization process in a new machine. Our results reveal the existence of a varied bacterial community in all the machines sampled, and a rapid colonisation process of the coffee leach. The community developed from a pioneering pool of enterobacteria and other opportunistic taxa to a mature but still highly variable microbiome rich in coffee-adapted bacteria. The bacterial communities described here, for the first time, are potential drivers of biotechnologically relevant processes including decaffeination and bioremediation.
- Subjects
MICROBIAL diversity; MICROBIAL variation; MICROORGANISM populations; MICROBIAL population genetics; COLONIZATION (Ecology)
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2015, p17163
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/srep17163