Direct seeding mulch-based cropping increases both the activity and the abundance of denitrifier communities in a tropical soil

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1703-1709

  Baudoin, Ezékiel ^a   Philippot, Laurent ^b,c   Chèneby, Dominique ^b,c   Chapuis Lardy, Lydie ^d   Fromin, Nathalie ^e   Bru, David ^b,c   Rabary, Bodovololona ^f   Brauman, Alain ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^d Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement Antananarivo   (Madagascar)

^e CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^f FOFIFA   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

16S rDNA gene; Denitrification; Direct seeding; Gene abundances; Mulch; nirK gene; Nitrous oxide; nosZ gene; Tillage

Indexed keywords

16S RDNA GENE; DIRECT SEEDING; MULCH; NIRK GENE; NITROUS OXIDE; NOSZ GENE; TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AGRONOMY; ANESTHETICS; CROPS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYMES; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MINING; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN OXIDES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; ROTATION; SOILS;

DENITRIFICATION;

ABUNDANCE; DENITRIFICATION; FARMING SYSTEM; GREENHOUSE GAS; MULCH; NITROGEN CYCLE; NITROUS OXIDE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEEDING;

EID: 67650239154     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.05.015     Document Type: Article

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