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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-6-25
pubmed:abstractText
Natural denitrification rates and activities of denitrifying enzymes were measured in an agricultural soil which had a 20-year past history of low pH (pH ca. 4) due to fertilization with acid-generating ammonium salts. The soil adjacent to this site had been limed and had a pH of ca. 6.0. Natural denitrification rates of these areas were of similar magnitude: 158 ng of N g of soil day for the acid soil and 390 ng of N g of soil day at the neutral site. Estimates of in situ denitrifying enzyme activity were higher in the neutral soil, but substantial enzyme activity was also detected in the acid soil. Rates of nitrous oxide reduction were very low, even when NO(3) and NO(2) were undetectable, and were ca. 400 times lower than the rates of N(2)O production from NO(3). Denitrification rates measured in slurries of the acid and neutral soil showed distinctly different pH optima (pH 3.9 and pH 6.3) which were near the pH values of the two soils. This suggests that an acid-tolerant denitrifying population had been selected during the 20-year period of low pH.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0099-2240
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
49
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1053-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-20
pubmed:year
1985
pubmed:articleTitle
Adaptation of Denitrifying Populations to Low Soil pH.
pubmed:affiliation
Soil Nitrogen and Environmental Chemistry Laboratory, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center-West, Beltsville, Maryland 20705; Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506; and Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48823.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article