Development of PCR primers targeting fungal nirK to study fungal denitrification in the environment

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 81, Issue , 2015, Pages 282-286

  Wei, Wei ^a   Isobe, Kazuo ^a   Shiratori, Yutaka ^b   Nishizawa, Tomoyasu ^a,c   Ohte, Nobuhito ^a   Ise, Yuta ^a   Otsuka, Shigeto ^a   Senoo, Keishi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Niigata Agricultural Research Institutes   (Japan)

^c IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fungal denitrification; Fungal nitrite reductase; N2O emission

Indexed keywords

DENITRIFICATION; GENES; RNA; SOILS;

CLONE LIBRARY; FUNGAL DENITRIFICATIONS; FUNGAL ISOLATES; NITRITE REDUCTASE; NITRITE REDUCTASE GENES; PCR PRIMERS; PRODUCTION PROCESS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

FUNGI;

CLONE; DENITRIFICATION; FUNGUS; NITROUS OXIDE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

EUROTIALES; FUNGI; HYPOCREALES; SORDARIALES;

EID: 84919343291     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.11.026     Document Type: Article

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