Soil microbial sources of nitrous oxide: recent advances in knowledge, emerging challenges and future direction

EM Baggs - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2011 - Elsevier
The greenhouse gas nitrous oxide can be produced in soil during several microbial
processes. Understanding of the regulation of these processes and the conditions under …

Ecology of denitrifying prokaryotes in agricultural soil

L Philippot, S Hallin, M Schloter - Advances in agronomy, 2007 - Elsevier
Denitrification is a microbial respiratory process during which soluble nitrogen oxides are
used as an alternative electron acceptor when oxygen is limiting. It results in considerable …

Biochar induced soil microbial community change: implications for biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus

CR Anderson, LM Condron, TJ Clough, M Fiers… - Pedobiologia, 2011 - Elsevier
It is generally accepted that biochar-C is largely unavailable to soil microbes but changes in
soil physicochemical properties and the introduction of metabolically available labile-C …

Quantitative response relationships between nitrogen transformation rates and nitrogen functional genes in a tidal flow constructed wetland under C/N ratio constraints

W Zhi, G Ji - Water Research, 2014 - Elsevier
The present study explored treatment performance and nitrogen removal mechanisms of a
novel tidal flow constructed wetland (TF CW) under C/N ratios ranging from two to 12. High …

Reassessing PCR primers targeting nirS, nirK and nosZ genes for community surveys of denitrifying bacteria with DGGE

IN Throbäck, K Enwall, Å Jarvis… - FEMS microbiology …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
We re-evaluated PCR primers targeting nirS, nirK and nosZ genes for denaturing gradient
gel electrophoresis as a tool to survey denitrifying community composition in environmental …

Quantitative Detection of the nosZ Gene, Encoding Nitrous Oxide Reductase, and Comparison of the Abundances of 16S rRNA, narG, nirK, and nosZ Genes in …

S Henry, D Bru, B Stres, S Hallet… - Applied and …, 2006 - Am Soc Microbiol
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is an important greenhouse gas in the troposphere controlling ozone
concentration in the stratosphere through nitric oxide production. In order to quantify bacteria …

As the worm turns: the earthworm gut as a transient habitat for soil microbial biomes

HL Drake, MA Horn - Annu. Rev. Microbiol., 2007 - annualreviews.org
The gut of the earthworm constitutes a mobile anoxic microzone to which the
microorganisms of aerated soils are subjected. During gut passage, the in situ factors of the …

Nitrate removal, communities of denitrifiers and adverse effects in different carbon substrates for use in denitrification beds

S Warneke, LA Schipper, MG Matiasek, KM Scow… - Water research, 2011 - Elsevier
Denitrification beds are containers filled with wood by-products that serve as a carbon and
energy source to denitrifiers, which reduce nitrate (NO3−) from point source discharges into …

Bacterial gene abundances as indicators of greenhouse gas emission in soils

SE Morales, T Cosart, WE Holben - The ISME Journal, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Nitrogen fixing and denitrifying bacteria, respectively, control bulk inputs and outputs of
nitrogen in soils, thereby mediating nitrogen-based greenhouse gas emissions in an …

Respiratory transformation of nitrous oxide (N2O) to dinitrogen by Bacteria and Archaea

WG Zumft, PMH Kroneck - Advances in microbial physiology, 2006 - Elsevier
N 2 O is a potent greenhouse gas and stratospheric reactant that has been steadily on the
rise since the beginning of industrialization. It is an obligatory inorganic metabolite of …