Controls and adaptive management of nitrification in agricultural soils

J Norton, Y Ouyang - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Agriculture is responsible for over half of the input of reactive nitrogen (N) to terrestrial
systems; however improving N availability remains the primary management technique to …

Nitrification and nitrifiers in acidic soils

Y Li, SJ Chapman, GW Nicol, H Yao - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
Nitrification, as a crucial step in nitrogen cycling and plant nutrition, is a biologically
mediated process responsible for enormous losses of nitrogen fertilizer and a contributor to …

Microplastics change soil properties, heavy metal availability and bacterial community in a Pb-Zn-contaminated soil

X Feng, Q Wang, Y Sun, S Zhang, F Wang - Journal of Hazardous materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) co-occur widely with diverse contaminants in soils. However, few data
are available on their impacts on soil chemical and microbial properties of heavy metal …

The microplastisphere: biodegradable microplastics addition alters soil microbial community structure and function

J Zhou, H Gui, CC Banfield, Y Wen, H Zang… - Soil Biology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Plastics accumulating in the environment, especially microplastics (defined as particles< 5
mm), can lead to a range of problems and potential loss of ecosystem services …

Nitrogen transformations in aquaponic systems: A review

S Wongkiew, Z Hu, K Chandran, JW Lee… - Aquacultural …, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years, aquaponic systems have gained significant popularity as soilless agriculture
systems for organic fruits and vegetables production with concomitant remediation of …

Archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidisers in soil: the quest for niche specialisation and differentiation

JI Prosser, GW Nicol - Trends in microbiology, 2012 - cell.com
Autotrophic archaeal and bacterial ammonia-oxidisers (AOA and AOB) drive soil nitrification.
Ammonia limitation, mixotrophy, and pH have been suggested as factors providing niche …

Microbial modulators of soil carbon storage: integrating genomic and metabolic knowledge for global prediction

P Trivedi, IC Anderson, BK Singh - Trends in microbiology, 2013 - cell.com
Soil organic carbon performs a number of functions in ecosystems and it is clear that
microbial communities play important roles in land–atmosphere carbon (C) exchange and …

[PDF][PDF] 高通量测序和DGGE 分析土壤微生物群落的技术评价

夏围围, 贾仲君 - 微生物学报, 2014 - researchgate.net
[目的] 比较新一代高通量测序与传统的变性梯度凝胶电泳(Denaturing Gradient Gel
Electrophoresis, DGGE) 指纹图谱技术, 评价两种技术研究土壤微生物群落结构的优缺点.[方法] …

Ammonia-oxidizing archaea have more important role than ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in ammonia oxidation of strongly acidic soils

LM Zhang, HW Hu, JP Shen, JZ He - The ISME journal, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Increasing evidence demonstrated the involvement of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) in
the global nitrogen cycle, but the relative contributions of AOA and ammonia-oxidizing …

Diversity, physiology, and niche differentiation of ammonia-oxidizing archaea

R Hatzenpichler - Applied and environmental microbiology, 2012 - Am Soc Microbiol
Nitrification, the aerobic oxidation of ammonia to nitrate via nitrite, has been suggested to
have been a central part of the global biogeochemical nitrogen cycle since the oxygenation …