Humic acids buffer the effects of urea on soil ammonia oxidizers and potential nitrification

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1612-1621

  Dong, Lianhua ^a,b   Córdova Kreylos, Ana Lucía ^b   Yang, Jinshui ^a   Yuan, Hongli ^a   Scow, Kate M ^b  

^a State Key Lab for Agrobiotechnology   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammonia oxidizer; amoA; Humic acids; Potential nitrification; SYBR green real time PCR; T RFLP; TaqMan real time PCR

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; LIGNITE; METABOLISM; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN; ORGANIC ACIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOILS;

AMMONIA OXIDIZERS; AMOA; HUMIC ACID; POTENTIAL NITRIFICATION; REAL-TIME PCR; T-RFLP;

UREA;

AUTOTROPHY; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; HUMIC ACID; MICROCOSM; NITRIFICATION; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; NITROGEN CYCLE; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SIZE; UREA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOMONADALES;

EID: 67650091671     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.04.023     Document Type: Article

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