Quantification of ammonia-oxidising bacteria in limed and non-limed acidic coniferous forest soil using real-time PCR

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1935-1941

  Hermansson, Anna ^a   Bäckman, Jenny S K ^a   Svensson, Bo H ^a   Lindgren, Per Eric ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acidic coniferous forest; Ammonia oxidising bacteria; Liming; Real time PCR; TaqMan

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA-OXIDISING BACTERIA (AOB); SOIL DEPTH; SPECIFICITY;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; CORRELATION METHODS; FORESTRY; GENES; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; RNA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

SOILS;

AMMONIFICATION; FOREST SOIL; LIMING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; FORESTRY; GENES; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; SOIL;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 5744246431     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2004.05.014     Document Type: Article

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