Role of the Salt Marsh Grass Spartina alterniflora in the Response of Soil-Denitrifying Bacteria to Glucose Enrichment
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
- Vol. 38 (4) , 747-748
- https://doi.org/10.1128/aem.38.4.747-748.1979
Abstract
Long-term incubations of salt marsh soil systems in the presence of glucose resulted in a decrease in the soils' denitrification potential. Addition of nitrate or the presence of living Spartina alterniflora reversed this effect, indicating that Spartina , through the establishment of an oxidized rhizosphere where nitrification can occur, enables the denitrifying bacteria to adequately compete with the less energetically efficient components of the anaerobic soil microbial community.Keywords
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- Effect of the Spartina alterniflora Root-Rhizome System on Salt Marsh Soil Denitrifying BacteriaApplied and Environmental Microbiology, 1978