{"id":182323,"date":"2024-02-09T01:23:42","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T07:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/microbial-research-unravels-a-global-nitrogen-mystery"},"modified":"2024-02-09T01:23:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T07:23:42","slug":"microbial-research-unravels-a-global-nitrogen-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/microbial-research-unravels-a-global-nitrogen-mystery","title":{"rendered":"Microbial research unravels a global nitrogen mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microbial-research-unravels-a-global-nitrogen-mystery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms (AOM) use ammonia for energy and account for the annual oxidation of approximately 2.3 trillion kilograms of nitrogen in soil, freshwater, the subsurface and man-made ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>But one major question that has remained unanswered for decades is how different AOM species coexist in the same environment: do they compete for ammonia or instead use other alternative compounds for their energy needs?<\/p>\n<p>New research by <a href=\"https:\/\/WWW.LLNL.GOV\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory<\/a> (LLNL), the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.edu\/\">University of Oklahoma<\/a> and other collaborators found an answer that significantly changes the understanding of ammonia oxidation, a critical component of the global nitrogen cycle. The research appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41564-023-01593-7\"><em>Nature Microbiology<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms (AOM) use ammonia for energy and account for the annual oxidation of approximately 2.3 trillion kilograms of nitrogen in soil, freshwater, the subsurface and man-made ecosystems. But one major question that has remained unanswered for decades is how different AOM species coexist in the same environment: do they compete for ammonia or instead [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}