Since the mid-1900s, humans have been exerting an ever-increasing impact on the global nitrogen cycle. Human activities, such as making fertilizers and burning fossil fuels, have significantly ...

Nitrogen fixation, ammonification, nitrification and denitrification, are all parts of the nitrogen cycle that depend on bacteria. A wide variety of bacteria are critically important for balancing ...

Dynamics of microbes, nitrate revealed by study Date: August 7, 2014 Source: University of North Carolina at Charlotte Summary: Though we know that the environmental microbiome plays a key role in ...

Fig 1 compares the relative needs for carbon and oxygen of conventional, Sharon and de-ammonification processes for nitrogen removal. The first full-scale plant using the de-ammonification pathway was ...

Nitrogen is a key component in proteins and DNA of all living organisms. ... (or ammonification) to make nitrogen usable for plants. Unlike many free-living nitrogen-fixing bacteria, ...

This study, entitled "NRT1.1B is associated with root microbiota composition and nitrogen use in field-grown rice," was published online in Nature Biotechnology on April 29, 2019.