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Diversity of the particulate methane monooxygenase gene in methanotrophic samples from different rice field soils in China and the Philippines.
Systematic and applied microbiology - 1 Aug 2002
Hoffmann Tanja, Horz Hans-Peter, Kemnitz Dana, Conrad Ralf
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Methanotrophic bacteria play a crucial role in regulating the emission of CH4 from rice fields into the atmosphere. We investigated the CH4 oxidation activity together with the diversity of methanotrophic bacteria in ten rice field soils from different geographic locations. Upon incubation of aerated soil slurries under 7% CH4, rates of CH4 oxidation increased after a lag phase of 1-4 days and reached values of...
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