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SUBMITTER: Bowatte S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4274428 | biostudies-other | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bowatte Saman S Newton Paul C D PC Brock Shona S Theobald Phil P Luo Dongwen D
The ISME journal 20140711 1
Nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from grazed pastures are a product of microbial transformations of nitrogen and the prevailing view is that these only occur in the soil. Here we show this is not the case. We have found ammonia-oxidising bacteria (AOB) are present on plant leaves where they produce N2O just as in soil. AOB (Nitrosospira sp. predominantly) on the pasture grass Lolium perenne converted 0.02-0.42% (mean 0.12%) of the oxidised ammonia to N2O. As we have found AOB to be ubiquitous on gr ...[more]