SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION 61(3) 471-480 2015年5月 [査読有り]
Chitosan, a polymer of glucosamine, is one of the natural polysaccharides which are used as soil-amendment materials. We report here chitosan degradation and the corresponding effects on microbes in two distinctive types of soil. Having establishe...
PROTEIN AND PEPTIDE LETTERS 21(9) 865-884 2014年 [査読有り]
Flooding is one of the serious problems for soybean plants because it inhibits growth. Proteomic and metabolomic techniques were used to determine whether proteins and metabolites are altered in the root tips of soybeans under flooding stress. Two...
BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS 49(8) 1141-1152 2013年11月 [査読有り]
Soybean plants autoregulate to suppress excessive nodulation. It has been revealed recently that the autoregulation of various legumes controls both nodulation and arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungal colonization. We investigated the involvement of...
Laccase oxidizes iodide to molecular iodine or hypoiodous acid, both of which are easily incorporated into natural soil organic matter. In this study, iodide sorption and laccase activity in 2 types of Japanese soil were determined under various e...