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Real-time quantitative PCR

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Soil Nitrogen Transformations Under Elevated Atmospheric Co2 And O3 During The Soybean Growing Season, Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira, Haegeun Chung, Kate Scow, Michael J. Sadowsky, Chris Van Kessel Feb 2011

Soil Nitrogen Transformations Under Elevated Atmospheric Co2 And O3 During The Soybean Growing Season, Engil Isadora Pujol Pereira, Haegeun Chung, Kate Scow, Michael J. Sadowsky, Chris Van Kessel

School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

We investigated the influence of elevated CO2 and O3 on soil N cycling within the soybean growing season and across soil environments (i.e., rhizosphere and bulk soil) at the Soybean Free Air Concentration Enrichment (SoyFACE) experiment in Illinois, USA. Elevated O3 decreased soil mineral N likely through a reduction in plant material input and increased denitrification, which was evidenced by the greater abundance of the denitrifier gene nosZ. Elevated CO2 did not alter the parameters evaluated and both elevated CO2 and O3 showed no interactive effects on nitrifier and denitrifier abundance, nor on total and mineral N concentrations. These results …