Impaired reduction of N2O to N2 in acid soils is due to a posttranscriptional interference with the expression of nosZ

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Binbin ^a   Frostegård, Åsa ^a   Bakken, Lars R ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; NITRIC OXIDE REDUCTASE;

ACID SOIL; ALKALINIZATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CALIBRATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DENITRIFICATION; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INCUBATION TIME; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NIRK GENE; NIRS GENE; NONHUMAN; NOSZ GENE; PARACOCCUS DENITRIFICANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SOIL; SOIL ACIDITY;

EID: 84903976204     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01383-14     Document Type: Article

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