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SUBMITTER: Whiteside MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3871874 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 20121201
The breakdown of organic nitrogen in soil is a potential rate-limiting step in nitrogen cycling. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are root symbionts that might improve the ability of plants to compete for organic nitrogen products against other decomposer microbes. However, AM uptake of organic nitrogen, especially in natural systems, has traditionally been difficult to test. We developed a novel quantitative nanotechnological technique to determine <i>in situ</i> that organic nitrogen uptake b ...[more]