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Who Is responsible for denitrification?


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Denitrification:

  1. Denitrification causes reduction of nitrate and nitrites to the gaseous forms of nitrogen due to microbial action found in soil.
  2. The process of denitrification takes place when bacteria present in soil use nitrate to respire instead of oxygen.
  3. The process is more rapid in warm and wet soils with abundant nitrate. The presence of nitrate is essential for denitrification to occur.

Microbes responsible for denitrification:

Some of them are Micrococcus denitrificans, Actinobacteria, Thiobacillus denitrificans, few species of Serratia, Achromobacter and Pseudomonas


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