Response of ammonia oxidizing microbes to the stresses of arsenic and copper in two acidic alfisols

Applied Soil Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue , 2014, Pages 59-67

  Subrahmanyam, Gangavarapu ^a,b   Hu, Hang Wei ^a   Zheng, Yuan Ming ^a   Gattupalli, Archana ^b   He, Ji Zheng ^a   Liu, Yu Rong ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b M S UNIVERSITY OF BARODA   (India)

Author keywords

Acidic soils; Ammonia oxidizers; Ammonia oxidizing archaea; AmoA gene; Heavy metal contamination; Potential nitrification rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894503900     PISSN: 09291393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsoil.2014.01.011     Document Type: Article

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