Limiting Factors for Microbial Growth and Activity in Soil

Use of nuclepore filters for counting bacteria by fluorescence microscopy

1977 • 4,274 citations

Fundamentals of Ecology

1972 • 2,503 citations

The Acetylene-Ethylene Assay for N₂ Fixation: Laboratory and Field Evaluation

1968 • 2,209 citations

The maintenance energy of bacteria in growing cultures

1965 • 1,438 citations

The Biology of Nitrogen Fixation

1976 • 875 citations

Acetylene inhibition of nitrous oxide reduction by denitrifying bacteria

1976 • 739 citations

Relationships between the denitrification capacities of soils and total, water-soluble and readily decomposable soil organic matter

1975 • 738 citations

The Blue-green algae

1973 • 669 citations

Determination of bacterial number and biomass in the marine environment

1977 • 594 citations

A Treatise on Dinitrogen Fixation

1977 • 590 citations

Acetylene inhibition of nitrous oxide reduction and measurement of denitrification and nitrogen fixation in soil

1977 • 544 citations

Biology of Plant Litter Decomposition

1974 • 492 citations

Hydrogen evolution: A major factor affecting the efficiency of nitrogen fixation in nodulated symbionts

1976 • 473 citations

The biology of mycorrhiza

1959 • 457 citations

Blockage by acetylene of nitrous oxide reduction in Pseudomonas perfectomarinus

1976 • 433 citations

Lectins: A Possible Basis for Specificity in the Rhizobium —Legume Root Nodule Symbiosis

1974 • 420 citations

Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in plants

1976 • 420 citations

Pathogenic Root-Infecting Fungi

1969 • 374 citations

INHIBITION OF NITRIFICATION BY CLIMAX ECOSYSTEMS

1972 • 362 citations

CONTROL OF NITRIFICATION BY 2-CHLORO-6-(TRICHLORO-METHYL) PYRIDINE

1962 • 318 citations

Pathogenic Root-Infecting Fungi

1971 • 316 citations

Nitrogen Fixation by Free‐living Microorganisms

1976 • 303 citations

Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in Plants

1976 • 303 citations

The use of fluorescein isothiocyanate in the determination of the bacterial biomass of grassland soil

1970 • 300 citations

INHIBITION OF NITRIFICATION BY CLIMAX ECOSYSTEMS. II. ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE AND POSSIBLE ROLE OF TANNINS

1973 • 284 citations

Estuarine microbial ecology

1973 • 281 citations

Soil Organisms and Decomposition in Tundra.

1975 • 263 citations

Microbial respiration and substrate weight loss—I

1977 • 252 citations

Activity, Ecology, and Population Dynamics of Microorganisms in Soil

1972 • 222 citations

Physiological aspects of N2-fixation by a Spirillum from Digitaria roots

1976 • 219 citations

Soil Organisms and Decomposition in Tundra

1975 • 198 citations

Fundamental Principles of Bacteriology

1954 • 192 citations

Sulfate Reduction in Soil: Effects of Redox Potential and p H

1968 • 179 citations

The Physical Environment in Soil Microbiology: An Attempt to Extend Principles of Microbiology to Soil Microorganisms

1976 • 177 citations

Turnover of microbial tissue in soil under field conditions

1973 • 169 citations

Biological Nitrogen Fixation for Food and Fiber Production

1977 • 161 citations

QUANTITATIVE AUTECOLOGICAL STUDY OF MICROORGANISMS IN SOIL BY IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE

1974 • 156 citations

The Ecology of Soil Bacteria.

1969 • 154 citations

Growth of Nitrosomonas europaea in batch and continuous culture

1961 • 151 citations

Clay Mineralogy in Relation to Survival of Soil Bacteria

1975 • 145 citations

Muramic acid as a measure of microbial biomass in estuarine and marine samples

1977 • 141 citations

CONTROL OF NITRIFICATION OF AMMONIUM FERTILIZERS AND UREA BY 2-CHLORO-6-(TRICHLOROMETHYL)PYRIDINE

1962 • 140 citations

Nitrogen‐15 in Soil‐Plant Studies

1972 • 136 citations

Nutrient Cycling Pathways and Litter Fungi

1972 • 135 citations

The inhibitory effect of oak leaf litter tannins on the growth of fungi, in relation to litter decomposition

1971 • 133 citations

REDUCTION OF ACETYLENE AND NITROGEN BY FIELD‐GROWN SOYBEANS

1972 • 127 citations

Growth of Nitrobacter in the presence of organic matter

1976 • 127 citations

Factors limiting microbial activities in soil

1961 • 123 citations

Growth of Nitrobacter in the presence of organic matter

1976 • 115 citations

The Use of Ampicillin in a Simplified Selective Medium for the Isolation of Fluorescent Pseudomonads

1974 • 106 citations

Progress in Soil Biology

1968 • 105 citations

Microbial Decomposition of Synthetic ¹⁴ C-Labeled Lignins in Nature: Lignin Biodegradation in a Variety of Natural Materials

1977 • 104 citations

Application of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Forestry Practice

1973 • 103 citations

ULTRASTRUCTURE OF WHEAT RHIZOSPHERE

1976 • 92 citations

The Physiology of Sulphate-Reducing Bacteria

1973 • 90 citations

Evidence for muramic acid in soil

1970 • 89 citations

The isolation, purification and some kinetic studies of marine nitrifying bacteria

1968 • 87 citations

Persistence and Competition Aspects of Rhizobium japonicum Observed in Soil by Immunofluorescence Microscopy

1973 • 87 citations

SOME INFLUENCES OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER PLANTS UPON THE MICROORGANISMS IN THE SOIL

1938 • 85 citations

Serogroups of Rhizobium japonicum in Soybean Nodules Sampled in Iowa¹

1971 • 85 citations

Regulation of Predation by Prey Density: the Protozoan- Rhizobium Relationship

1975 • 84 citations

ELECTRON MICROSCOPICAL STUDIES OF THE MICROFLORA OF ROOTS OF SAND DUNE GRASSES

1975 • 83 citations

Scanning electron microscopy of microorganisms on the roots of wheat

1974 • 83 citations

Chromosomal recombination and mapping in Rhizobium leguminosarum

1976 • 81 citations

Autecological Study of the Chemoautotroph Nitrobacter by Immunofluorescence

1974 • 80 citations

Inhibition of nitrification in soils by volatile sulfur compounds

1974 • 78 citations

Ammonium Diffusion as a Factor in Nitrogen Loss from Flooded Soils

1976 • 77 citations

THE CAUSATION OF THE DIURNAL CHANGES IN NITROGEN FIXATION IN THE NODULES OF ALNUS GLUTINOSA

1971 • 76 citations

The acetylene reduction assay as a means of studying nitrogen fixation in white clover under sward and laboratory conditions

1976 • 71 citations

RHIZOBIA (WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO RELATIONSHIPS WITH HOST PLANTS)

1969 • 71 citations

Biological Nitrogen Fixation

1970 • 69 citations

Defence Mechanisms of Plants

1977 • 69 citations

Preparation of Specifically Labeled ¹⁴ C-(Lignin)- and ¹⁴ C-(Cellulose)-Lignocelluloses and Their Decomposition by the Microflora of Soil

1977 • 65 citations

A Selective Medium for Agrobacterium radiobacter Biotype 2

1971 • 65 citations

Autoradiography and Immunofluorescence Combined for Autecological Study of Single Cell Activity with Nitrobacter as a Model System

1975 • 65 citations

Distribution of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus in sewage works, river water, and sediments

1976 • 65 citations

Nitrate Reduction to Nitrite, a Possible Source of Nitrite for Growth of Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria

1977 • 64 citations

Microbial respiration and substrate weight loss—II

1977 • 61 citations

Polarity in the exponential-phase Rhizobium japonicum cell

1977 • 59 citations

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRAINS OF RHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM AND THEIR BACTERIOPHAGES FROM SOIL AND NODULES OF FIELD-GROWN SOYBEANS

1974 • 57 citations

Defence Mechanisms of Plants

1977 • 55 citations

Immunofluorescent polar tips of Rhizobium japonicum: possible site of attachment or lectin binding

1976 • 53 citations

Role of Azotobacter paspali in Association with Paspalum notatum

1976 • 51 citations

Integration, Identity and Stability in the Plant Association

1969 • 50 citations

Diurnal Variations of Nitrogenase Activity in the Field

1974 • 50 citations

Kinetics of Nitrification in Soil: Growth of the Nitrifiers

1971 • 47 citations

Nitrification in three soils amended with zinc sulfate

1977 • 46 citations

Uptake and Utilization of Amino Acids by Resting Cells of Nitrosomonas europaea

1967 • 45 citations

Regulation of parasitism by host density: The Bdellovibrio-Rhizobium interrelationship

1975 • 45 citations

Regulation of Predation by Prey Density: the Protozoan-Rhizobium Relationship

1975 • 44 citations

An approach to the study of moisture relations of soil fungi

1964 • 44 citations

Ureolysis, Immobilization, and Nitrification in Black Spruce (Picea mariana Mill.) Humus

1966 • 43 citations

Autecological Study of the Chemoautotroph Nitrobacter by Immunofluorescence

1974 • 42 citations

Morphological abnormalities of fungi induced by volatile microbial metabolites.

1973 • 39 citations

Ndn2-fixing algal biomass in Senegal rice fields.

1978 • 35 citations

Decomposition of Lower Plants

1974 • 35 citations

Diurnal Variations of Nitrogenase Activity in the Field

1974 • 34 citations

The Effects of Antimicrobial Substances on Rhizobium spp. and their Use in Selective Media

1974 • 33 citations

FIELD-MEASURED NITROUS OXIDE CONCENTRATIONS, REDOX POTENTIALS, OXYGEN DIFFUSION RATES, AND OXYGEN, PARTIAL PRESSURES IN RELATION TO DENITRIFICATION1

1976 • 32 citations

Nitrification in Soil: Systems Approaching a Steady State

1969 • 29 citations

Inhibition of Nitrification in Bladen Grassland Soil

1968 • 29 citations

Diurnal changes in acetylene reduction in field-grown cowpeas and soybeans

1977 • 27 citations

Light Intensity and the Nitrogen Hunger Period in the Manchu Soybean

1938 • 26 citations

Autoradiography and Immunofluorescence Combined for Autecological Study of Single Cell Activity with Nitrobacter as a Model System1

1975 • 25 citations

Direct counts of bacteria by a modified acridine orange method in relation to their heterotrophic activity

1978 • 25 citations

Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus Parasitizing Rhizobium in Western Australia

1970 • 25 citations

Nitrogen-fixation by Mixed Cultures of Aerobic and Anaerobic Micro-organisms in an Aerobic Environment

1973 • 24 citations

A Treatise on Dinitrogen Fixation, Section IV

1977 • 23 citations

Enhancing biological nitrogen fixation

1984 • 23 citations

Resistance of Rhizobium strains to phygon, spergon, and thiram

1977 • 22 citations

A Note on the Estimation of Azotobacter Densities by Membrane Filter Technique

1976 • 22 citations

Contribution à l'étude de la dynamique microbienne des sols en zone semi-aride et en zone tropicale sèche

1961 • 21 citations

Nonsteady state studies of nitrification in soil: Theoretical considerations

1973 • 21 citations

Simulation of Nitrogen Behavior in Soils

1974 • 21 citations

Growth of some chemoautotrophic bacteria at different oxygen tensions

1966 • 21 citations

Effect of osmotic potential on streptomycete growth, antibiotic production and antagonism to fungi

1974 • 20 citations

Biological Nitrogen Fixation

2005 • 20 citations

Systems Analysis as Applied to Modeling Ecological Processes

1973 • 18 citations

Microscopic detection of adventitious viruses in cell cultures

1972 • 18 citations

LA DENITRIFICATION DANS LES SOLS

1975 • 16 citations

Morphological Abnormalities of Fungi Induced by Volatile Microbial Metabolites

1973 • 16 citations

Nitrification in the intertidal zone: influence of effluent type and effect of tannin on nitrifiers

1977 • 15 citations

La sulfato-réduction en relation avec l'excrétion racinaire

1975 • 14 citations

Theological ecology or Models and the real world

1973 • 14 citations

Antibacterial Substances in Water Extracts of Pure Forest Litter

1946 • 13 citations

Microbial Changes in Foods—General Considerations

1971 • 11 citations

Effet litière : 2-Etude expérimentale du pouvoir inhibiteur des composés hydrosolubles des feuilles et des litières forestières vis à vis de la microflore tellurique

1969 • 9 citations

Absence of nitrifying microorganisms from a greek forest soil

1975 • 9 citations

Optimal Control of Nitrogen Losses from Land Disposal Areas

1973 • 9 citations

Note préliminaire concernant la sulfato-réduction rhizosphérique dans un sol salin tunisien

1969 • 8 citations

[Spermospheric sulfato-reduction].

1971 • 5 citations

Scanning Electron Microscopy in the Study of Terrestrial Microbial Ecology

1973 • 3 citations