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The 'known' genetic potential for microbial communities to degrade organic phosphorus is reduced in low-pH soils.
MicrobiologyOpen - 1 Aug 2017
Lidbury Ian D E A, Fraser Tandra, Murphy Andrew R J, Scanlan David J, Bending Gary D, Jones Alexandra M E, Moore Jonathan D, Goodall Andrew, Tibbett Mark, Hammond John P, Wellington Elizabeth M H
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In soil, bioavailable inorganic orthophosphate is found at low concentrations and thus limits biological growth. To overcome this phosphorus scarcity, plants and bacteria secrete numerous enzymes, namely acid and alkaline phosphatases, which cleave orthophosphate from various organic phosphorus substrates. Using profile hidden Markov modeling approaches, we investigated the abundance of various non specific...
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