Effect of ammonium-, nitrite- and nitrate nitrogen on anaerobic nitrogenase activity in soil |
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| Authors: | R Knowles D Denike |
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| Institution: | Department of Microbiology, Macdonald Campus of McGill University. Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3M1, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Sandy loam soil, with added glucose, was incubated anaerobically under N2 and subjected to repeated 1-h C2H2 reduction assays. In the presence of 1% glucose the addition of 50 μg NH4+ ?N/g or of 20 μg NO?3 N/g (untreated soil contained 1.2 μg NH+4?N and 7.10 μg NO?3-N/g) caused at least some suppression of nitrogenase activity. Activity developed when the KCl-extractable soil inorganic nitrogen concentration dropped below 35 μg/g. In the presence of 0.1 or 0.05% glucose the addition of 5 μg NH+4?N/g caused some suppression of nitrogenase activity. However, activity developed when the soil NH4+-N concentration dropped below about 4 μg/g. With 0.1% glucose and 5 μg added NO?2 N/g, activity did not develop until the soil NO?2 -N concentration dropped to zero. Added NO?3 N was rapidly reduced and denitrified to NO?2- N, N2O-N and NH+4 N and furthermore caused some inhibition of CO2 evolution. The data from NH4?-addition experiments are consistent with a nitrogenase repression/ derepression threshold of 4 and 35μg NH+4-N/g at 0.05 and 1% glucose concentrations, respectively. The data from NO?2- and NO?3-addition experiments suggest a combination of repression and toxicity effects in the presence of added NO?3 N. |
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