Soil microbial indicators for efficient use of nitrification inhibitors

Temporal response of ureolytic and ammonia-oxidizing microbes and pasture yield to urea and NBPT at Leigh Creek of Victoria in Australia

Aineah Obed Luchibia, Helen Suter, Shu Kee Lam, Lee Menhenett, Ji-Zheng He

2021-08-01

The urease inhibitor N-(n-butyl) thiophosphoric triamide (NBPT) has been reported to effectively reduce nitrogen (N) losses by inh..

Responses of ureolytic and nitrifying microbes to urease and nitrification inhibitors in selected agricultural soils in Victoria, Australia

Aineah Obed Luchibia, Helen Suter, Hang-Wei Hu, Shu Kee Lam, Ji-Zheng He

2020-03-01

Purpose: Urease inhibitors (UIs) such as N-(n-butyl)thiophosphoric triamide (NBPT) and nitrification inhibitors (NIs) such as 3,4-..

Growth of comammox Nitrospira is inhibited by nitrification inhibitors in agricultural soils

Chaoyu Li, Hang-Wei Hu, Qing-Lin Chen, Deli Chen, Ji-Zheng He

2020-02-01

Purpose: The discovery of comammox Nitrospira being capable of complete oxidising ammonia to nitrate radically challenged the conv..

Effects of repeated applications of urea with DMPP on ammonia oxidizers, denitrifiers, and non-targeted microbial communities of an agricultural soil in Queensland, Australia

AO Luchibia, SK Lam, H Suter, Q Chen, B O'Mara, JZ He

2019-11-05

Nitrification inhibitors have been reported to reduce nitrous oxide emission and nitrate leaching in agricultural systems. The eff..

Comammox Nitrospira play an active role in nitrification of agricultural soils amended with nitrogen fertilizers

Chaoyu Li, Hang-Wei Hu, Qing-Lin Chen, Deli Chen, Ji-Zheng He

2019-11-01

The recent discovery of complete ammonia oxidizers (comammox Nitrospira) challenged the paradigm of the two-step nitrification med..

Effects of nitrification inhibitors on gross N nitrification rate, ammonia oxidizers, and N2O production under different temperatures in two pasture soils

Ting Lan, Helen Suter, Rui Liu, Shu Yuan, Deli Chen

2018-10-01

Australian pasture soil for cattle and sheep industries constitutes the principal land use with considerable N fertilizer consumpt..

Nitrogen transformation rates and N2O producing pathways in two pasture soils

Ting Lan, Helen Suter, Rui Liu, Xuesong Gao, Deli Chen

2018-09-01

Purpose: Better understanding of N transformations and the regulation of N2O-related N transformation processes in pasture soil co..

Manipulating the soil microbiome for improved nitrogen management

Hang-Wei Hu, Ji-Zheng He

2018-03-01

<jats:p>The soil microbiome, including bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses, and other microbial eukaryotes, has crucial roles in the..

Effects of the nitrification inhibitor acetylene on nitrous oxide emissions and ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms of different agricultural soils under laboratory incubation conditions

Rui Liu, Helen L Hayden, Hangwei Hu, Jizheng He, Helen Suter, Deli Chen

2017-10-01

Acetylene (C2H2) is an effective nitrification inhibitor targeting autotrophic ammonia oxidizers, and has shown promise for improv..

Response of ammonia oxidizers and denitrifiers to repeated applications of a nitrification inhibitor and a urease inhibitor in two pasture soils

Xiuzhen Shi, Hang-Wei Hu, Kevin Kelly, Deli Chen, Ji-Zheng He, Helen Suter

2017-04-01

Purpose: The nitrification inhibitor 3,4-dimethylpyrazol-phosphate (DMPP) and the urease inhibitor N-(n-butyl) thiophosphoric tria..

N-15 methodologies for quantifying the response of N-2-fixing associations to elevated [CO2]: A review

Phillip M Chalk, Shu K Lam, Deli Chen

2016-11-15

Methodologies based on (15)N enrichment (E) and (15)N natural abundance (NA) have been used to obtain quantitative estimates of th..