introduction: application of edta may increase the heavy metal availability and phytoextraction efficiency in contaminated soils. in spite of that, it might also have some adverse effects on soil biological properties. metals as freeions are considered to be severely toxic, whereas the complexed form of these metalswith organic compounds or fe/mn oxides may be less available to soil microbes. h...

Soil quality is critical to the management of urban green space, in particular, along traffic corridors where traffic-related air pollution is significant. Soil quality can be evaluated by soil enzyme activities, which show quick responses to both natural and anthropogenic disturbances. In this study, we investigated three soil enzyme activities (i.e., dehydrogenase, catalase and urease) along ...

GUAN X, WANG SL & ZHANG WD. 2016. Availability of N and P in the rhizosphere of three subtropical species. This study aimed to assess the variation in soil chemical properties in the rhizosphere soils between plantations of 25-year-old Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata), Chinese gugertree (Schima superba) and Masson pine (Pinus massoniana), which were all situated in a typical subtropical fo...

Different forest types exert essential impacts on soil physical-chemical characteristics by dominant tree species producing diverse litters and root exudates, thereby further regulating size and activity of soil microbial communities. However, the study accuracy is usually restricted by differences in climate, soil type and forest age. Our objective is to precisely quantify soil microbial bioma...

This study assesses the effects of herbicide oxyfluorfen on activities enzymes and populations soil microorganisms by considering experiments samples maintained in both laboratory field conditions. Furthermore, molecular docking approach was used to evaluate interactions with found soil. There a dose dependent inhibitory effect against dehydrogenase, phosphatase, protease urease. The obtained f...

This study analyzed the relationship between nitrogen fertilization and the biological properties of soil contaminated with zinc. The influence of various concentrations of zinc and nitrogen on the microbiological and biochemical activity of soil was investigated. In a laboratory experiment, loamy sand with pHKCl 5.6 was contaminated with zinc (ZnCl2) and fertilized with urea as a source of nit...

As one of the emerging soil improvement techniques, microbial induced calcite precipitation (MICP) can bond soil grains together and improve the engineering properties of soil [1]. bacteria produces urease enzyme can catalyze urea to carbonate and result in calcite precipitation in elevated pH environment. The forms of calcite precipitation around the bacteria limit the availability of oxygen a...

A pot experiment was performed to study the effectiveness of remediation using different plant species and the enzyme response involved in remediating PAH-contaminated soil. The study indicated that species Echinacea purpurea, Festuca arundinacea Schred, Fire Phoenix (a combined F. arundinacea), and Medicago sativa L. possess the potential for remediation in PAH-contaminated soils. The study al...

Nitrogen fertilizer in the form of urea is subject to ammonia volatilization through the activity of the urease enzyme found ubiquitously in soil (Kissel et al., 2008). Nitrate fertilizer is subject to leaching (Randall et al., 2008) or denitrification (Coyne, 2008), depending on the water content of the soil and water movement through the soil. Ammonium forms of N can be fixed (Kissel et al., ...