A liquid chromatographic/mass spectrometric method to evaluate 13C and 15N incorporation into soil amino acids

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 731-740

  He, Hongbo ^a   Lü, Huijie ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a   Hou, Songmei ^b   Zhang, Xudong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b Supervision and Test Center for Pesticide Safety Evaluation and Quality Control   (China)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Amino acid; Isotope incubation; Liquid chromatographic mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; DECOMPOSITION; GLUCOSE; HYDROLYSIS; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLLISOL; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PURIFICATION; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

EID: 79959810392     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-011-0360-5     Document Type: Article

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