ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2012
Impacts of nitrogen application rates on the activity and diversity of denitrifying bacteria in the Broadbalk Wheat Experiment.
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- The effects of silver nanoparticles on the microbial nitrogen cycle: a review of the known risks.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2020Review
- Manure application increased denitrifying gene abundance in a drip-irrigated cotton field.PeerJ · 2019Article
- Inorganic Nitrogen Application Affects Both Taxonomical and Predicted Functional Structure of Wheat Rhizosphere Bacterial Communities.Frontiers in microbiology · 2018Article
- Responses of denitrifying bacterial communities to short-term waterlogging of soils.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Linkage between NScientific reports · 2017Article
- Changes of microbial population and N-cycling function genes with depth in three Chinese paddy soils.PloS one · 2017Article
- Soil resilience and recovery: rapid community responses to management changes.Plant and soil · 2017Article
- Highly diverse nirK genes comprise two major clades that harbour ammonium-producing denitrifiers.BMC genomics · 2016Article
- Abundance and distribution of microorganisms involved in denitrification in sediments of a Myriophyllum elatinoides purification system for treating swine wastewater.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2015Article
- The diversity of the N2O reducers matters for the N2O:N2 denitrification end-product ratio across an annual and a perennial cropping system.Frontiers in microbiology · 2015Article
- Temporal changes in soil bacterial and archaeal communities with different fertilizers in tea orchards.Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B · 2014Article
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- Ca. Nitrososphaera and Bradyrhizobium are inversely correlated and related to agricultural practices in long-term field experiments.Frontiers in microbiology · 2013Article
- Biological sources and sinks of nitrous oxide and strategies to mitigate emissions.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2012Review
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Abstract
Bacterial denitrification results in the loss of fertilizer nitrogen and greenhouse gas emissions as nitrous oxides, but ecological factors in soil influencing denitrifier communities are not well understood, impeding the potential for mitigation by land management. Communities vary in the relative abundance of the alternative dissimilatory nitrite reductase genes nirK and nirS, and the nitrous oxide reductase gene nosZ; however, the significance for nitrous oxide emissions is unclear. We assessed the influence of different long-term fertilization and cultivation treatments in a 160-year-old field experiment, comparing the potential for denitrification by soil samples with the size and diversity of their denitrifier communities. Denitrification potential was much higher in soil from an area left to develop from arable into woodland than from a farmyard manure-fertilized arable treatment, which in turn was significantly higher than inorganic nitrogen-fertilized and unfertilized arable plots. This correlated with abundance of nirK but not nirS, the least abundant of the genes tested in all soils, showing an inverse relationship with nirK. Most genetic variation was seen in nirK, where sequences resolved into separate groups according to soil treatment. We conclude that bacteria containing nirK are most probably responsible for the increased denitrification potential associated with nitrogen and organic carbon in this soil.
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