Nitrous oxide production by ammonia oxidizers: physiological diversity, niche differentiation and potential mitigation strategies

JI Prosser, L Hink, C Gubry‐Rangin… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Oxidation of ammonia to nitrite by bacteria and archaea is responsible for global emissions
of nitrous oxide directly and indirectly through provision of nitrite and, after further oxidation …

Nitrification and beyond: metabolic versatility of ammonia oxidising archaea

CL Wright, LE Lehtovirta-Morley - The ISME Journal, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ammonia oxidising archaea are among the most abundant living organisms on Earth and
key microbial players in the global nitrogen cycle. They carry out oxidation of ammonia to …

Nitrification in agricultural soils: impact, actors and mitigation

F Beeckman, H Motte, T Beeckman - Current opinion in Biotechnology, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Nitrification causes nitrogen losses with impact on crop yield and
environment.•Newly discovered microbes can be important for nitrification in agricultural …

Effects of commonly used nitrification inhibitors—dicyandiamide (DCD), 3, 4-dimethylpyrazole phosphate (DMPP), and nitrapyrin—on soil nitrogen dynamics and …

X Zhou, S Wang, S Ma, X Zheng, Z Wang, C Lu - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
The use of nitrification inhibitors (NIs) with ammonium (NH 4+)-based fertilizers is an efficient
strategy for reducing nitrogen (N) loss by affecting ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and …

Unexpected complexity of the ammonia monooxygenase in archaea

LH Hodgskiss, M Melcher, M Kerou, W Chen… - The ISME …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ammonia oxidation, as the first step of nitrification, constitutes a critical process in the global
nitrogen cycle. However, fundamental knowledge of its key enzyme, the copper-dependent …

Improving nitrogen use efficiency in aerobic rice based on insights into the ecophysiology of archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidizers

MS Farooq, M Uzair, Z Maqbool, S Fiaz… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The abundance and structural composition of nitrogen (N) transformation-related microbial
communities under certain environmental conditions provide sufficient information about N …

Hostile takeover: how viruses reprogram prokaryotic metabolism

TB Jacobson, MM Callaghan… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
To reproduce, prokaryotic viruses must hijack the cellular machinery of their hosts and
redirect it toward the production of viral particles. While takeover of the host replication and …

Soils and sediments host Thermoplasmata archaea encoding novel copper membrane monooxygenases (CuMMOs)

S Diamond, A Lavy, A Crits-Christoph… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Copper membrane monooxygenases (CuMMOs) play critical roles in the global carbon and
nitrogen cycles. Organisms harboring these enzymes perform the first, and rate limiting, step …

Mechanisms of mitigating nitrous oxide emissions from vegetable soil varied with manure, biochar and nitrification inhibitors

P Duan, Q Zhang, X Zhang, Z Xiong - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2019 - Elsevier
A clear understanding of the effects of manure, biochar and nitrification inhibitors (NI,
nitrapyrin-SNI and Sorghum bicolor L.-BNI) amendment on nitrous oxide (N 2 O) production …

Plastic film mulching affects N2O emission and ammonia oxidizers in drip irrigated potato soil in northwest China

W Wang, L Han, X Zhang, K Wei - Science of the total environment, 2021 - Elsevier
In soil, ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB) and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) are
regarded as key factors mediating nitrous oxide (N 2 O) production and emission. However …