0 bacteria in the ground that change the nitrogen in dead plants into a form that growing plants can use for food --
1 bacteria in the dirt on the surface of the earth that change the nitrogen (= gas) in dead plants into a form that growing plants can use for food --
Population ecology of nitrifying bacteria.
Mechanisms for soil moisture effects on activity of nitrifying bacteria.
An important distinction can be made between sulfur-oxidizing and nitrifying bacteria by their response to the introduction of carbon to the culture in the form of carbonates and bicarbonates.
Nitrifying bacteria turn the ammonium compounds into nitrites and then into nitrates for plant absorption.
Putrefying bacteria is one of the main processes in the nitrogen cycle; other than putrefying bacteria there are denitrifying bacteria, nitrifying bacteria and nitrogen-fixing bacteria.
This approach was successfully used to reveal that some ammonium oxidizing bacteria, also called nitrifying bacteria use urea as a carbon source in soil.
Biological filters provide a medium specially designed for colonization by the desired nitrifying bacteria.
Examples of bacteria containing intracellular membranes are phototrophs, nitrifying bacteria and methane-oxidising bacteria.
