Archaeal ammonia oxidisers are abundant in acidic, coarse-textured Australian soils

Soil Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 715-724

  O'Sullivan, Cathryn A ^a   Wakelin, Steven A ^a,b   Fillery, Ian R P ^a   Gregg, Adrienne L ^a   Roper, Margaret M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AGRESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

acidic soils; ammonia oxidation; ammonia oxidising archaea; ammonia oxidising bacteria; amoA; nitrification

Indexed keywords

ACIDIC SOILS; AGRICULTURAL SOILS; AMMONIA OXIDATION; AMMONIA-OXIDISING ARCHAEA; AMOA; ARCHAEA; ARCHAEAL; BANDING PATTERNS; BIOLOGICAL VARIATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DETECTION LIMITS; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; IRRIGATED PASTURE; MONOOXYGENASES; PASTURE SOILS; PCR-DGGE; POTENTIAL NITRIFICATION; REAL-TIME PCR; SOIL DNA; SOIL PH; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AGRICULTURE; AMMONIA; BACTERIA; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENES; NITRIFICATION; OXIDATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

SOILS;

ABUNDANCE; ACID SOIL; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; AMMONIA; ELECTROKINESIS; GENOTYPE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; NITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CYCLE; PASTURE; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL TEXTURE;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84855647290     PISSN: 1838675X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR11288     Document Type: Article

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