Microbial regulation of the soil carbon cycle: Evidence from gene-enzyme relationships

ISME Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2593-2604

  Trivedi, Pankaj ^a   Delgado Baquerizo, Manuel ^a   Trivedi, Chanda ^a   Hu, Hangwei ^b   Anderson, Ian C ^a   Jeffries, Thomas C ^a   Zhou, Jizhong ^c,d,e   Singh, Brajesh K ^a,f  

^a WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

AUSTRALIA;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CARBON; SOIL;

AUSTRALIA; BACTERIUM; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL;

AUSTRALIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; ECOSYSTEM; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84966658387     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2016.65     Document Type: Article

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