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ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
Volume 59, Issue 6, Pages 2182-2202Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201903014
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ammonia monooxygenase; biological nitrification inhibition; greenhouse gases; hydroxylamine oxidoreductase; nitrate leaching
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Approximately two percent of the world's energy is consumed in the production of ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen gas. Ammonia is used as a fertilizer ingredient for agriculture and distributed in the environment on an enormous scale to promote crop growth in intensive farming. Only 30-50 % of the nitrogen applied is assimilated by crop plants; the remaining 50-70 % goes into biological processes such as nitrification by microbial metabolism in the soil. This leads to an imbalance in the global nitrogen cycle and higher nitrous oxide emissions (a potent and significant greenhouse gas) as well as contamination of ground and surface waters by nitrate from the nitrogen-fertilized farmland. This Review gives a critical overview of the current knowledge of soil microbes involved in the chemistry of ammonia nitrification, the structures and mechanisms of the enzymes involved, and phytochemicals capable of inhibiting ammonia nitrification.
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