The nitrogen cycle and mitigation strategies for nitrogen loss during organic waste composting: A review

HG Hoang, BTP Thuy, C Lin, DVN Vo, HT Tran… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Composting is a promising technology to decompose organic waste into humus-like high-
quality compost, which can be used as organic fertilizer. However, greenhouse gases (N 2 …

Nitrite oxidation in wastewater treatment: microbial adaptation and suppression challenges

Z Su, T Liu, J Guo, M Zheng - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Microbial nitrite oxidation is the primary pathway that generates nitrate in wastewater
treatment systems and can be performed by a variety of microbes: namely, nitrite-oxidizing …

The effects of chemical and organic fertilizer usage on rhizosphere soil in tea orchards

W Lin, M Lin, H Zhou, H Wu, Z Li, W Lin - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Sustainable agriculture is an important global issue. The use of organic fertilizers can
enhance crop yield and soil properties while restraining pests and diseases. The objective …

Bacterial chemolithoautotrophy via manganese oxidation

H Yu, JR Leadbetter - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Manganese is one of the most abundant elements on Earth. The oxidation of manganese
has long been theorized—yet has not been demonstrated,–—to fuel the growth of …

Complete nitrification by Nitrospira bacteria

H Daims, EV Lebedeva, P Pjevac, P Han, C Herbold… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Nitrification, the oxidation of ammonia via nitrite to nitrate, has always been considered to be
a two-step process catalysed by chemolithoautotrophic microorganisms oxidizing either …

Complete nitrification by a single microorganism

MAHJ Van Kessel, DR Speth, M Albertsen, PH Nielsen… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Nitrification is a two-step process where ammonia is first oxidized to nitrite by ammonia-
oxidizing bacteria and/or archaea, and subsequently to nitrate by nitrite-oxidizing bacteria …

A new perspective on microbes formerly known as nitrite-oxidizing bacteria

H Daims, S Lücker, M Wagner - Trends in microbiology, 2016 - cell.com
Nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB) catalyze the second step of nitrification, nitrite oxidation to
nitrate, which is an important process of the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle. NOB were …

Nitrification and beyond: metabolic versatility of ammonia oxidising archaea

CL Wright, LE Lehtovirta-Morley - The ISME Journal, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Ammonia oxidising archaea are among the most abundant living organisms on Earth and
key microbial players in the global nitrogen cycle. They carry out oxidation of ammonia to …

Complete nitrification: insights into the ecophysiology of comammox Nitrospira

H Koch, MAHJ van Kessel, S Lücker - Applied microbiology and …, 2019 - Springer
Nitrification, the oxidation of ammonia via nitrite to nitrate, has been considered to be a
stepwise process mediated by two distinct functional groups of microorganisms. The …

[HTML][HTML] FeGenie: a comprehensive tool for the identification of iron genes and iron gene neighborhoods in genome and metagenome assemblies

AI Garber, KH Nealson, A Okamoto… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Iron is a micronutrient for nearly all life on Earth. It can be used as an electron donor and
electron acceptor by iron-oxidizing and iron-reducing microorganisms and is used in a …