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FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY
Volume 48, Issue 3, Pages 425-435Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsec.2004.03.008
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biodegradation; atrazine; atz genes'; quantitative PCR; soil bacterial community
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The impact of organic amendment (sewage sludge or waste water) used to fertilize agricultural soils was estimated oil the atrazine-degrading activity, the atrazine-degrading genetic potential and the bacterial community structure of soils continuously cropped with corn. Long-term application of organic amendment did not modify atrazine-mineralizing activity, which was found to essentially depend oil the soil type. It also did not modify atrazine-degrading genetic potential estimated by quantitative PCR targeting at:A. B and C genes. which was shown to depend on soil type. The structure of soil bacterial community determined by RISA fingerprinting was significantly affected by organic amendment. These results showed that modification of the structure of soil bacterial community in response to organic amendment is not necessarily accompanied by a modification of atrazine-degrading genetic potential or activity. In addition, these results revealed that different soils showing similar atrazine-degrading genetic potentials may exhibit different atrazine-degrading activities. (C) 2004 Federation of European Microbiological Societies. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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