Methods of Soil Enzymology
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Richard Dick is an Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor in the School of Environment and Natural Resources at Ohio State University. His research focuses on the soil biochemistry and ecology of microorganisms in relation to terrestrial management and manipulations for beneficial services to ecosystems. Soil enzymology has been an important component of his research which began as a PhD student under Professor M. A. Tabatabai at Iowa State University.
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Preface xi
Contributors xv
Conversion Factors for SI and Non-SI Units xvii
Chapter 1 A Brief History of Soil Enzymology Research 1
Richard P. Dick and Richard G. Burns
Chapter 2 Ecology of Extracellular Enzyme Activities and Organic Matter Degradation in Soil: A Complex Community-Driven Process 35
Matthew D. Wallenstein and Richard G. Burns
Chapter 3 Kinetics of Soil Enzyme Reactions 57
Warren A. Dick
Chapter 4 Development of a Soil Enzyme Reaction Assay 71
Warren A. Dick
Chapter Sampling and Pretreatment of Soil before Enzyme Analysis 85
Nicola Lorenz and Richard P. Dick
Chapter 6 Soil Oxidoreductases and FDA Hydrolysis 103
Jennifer A. Prosser, Tom W. Speir, and Diane E. Stott
Chapter 7 Sulfur Cycle Enzymes 125
Susanne Klose, Serdar Bilen, M. Ali Tabatabai, and Warren A. Dick
Chapter 8 Phosphorus Cycle Enzymes 161
Verónica Acosta-MartÃnez and M. Ali Tabatabai
Chapter 9 178 Carbohydrate Hydrolases 185
Shiping Deng and Inna Popova
Chapter 10 Nitrogen Cycle Enzymes 211
Ellen Kandeler, Christian Poll, William T. Frankenberger Jr., and M. Ali Tabatabai
Chapter 11 Activities of Proteolytic Enzymes 247
Loretta Landi, Giancarlo Renella, Laura Giagnoni, and Paolo Nannipieri
Chapter 12 Biologically Active Compounds in Soil: Plant Hormones and Allelochemicals 261
Serdar Bilen, Jeong Jin Kim, and Warren A. Dick
Chapter 13 Enzyme Activities of Root Tips and in situ Profiles of Soils and Rhizospheres 275
Melanie D. Jones, Denise D. Brooks, Pierre-Emmanuel Courty, Jean Garbaye, Pauline F. Grierson, and Karin Pritsch
Chapter 14 Microplate Fluorimetric Assay of Soil Enzymes 311
Shiping Deng, Hojeong Kang, and Chris Freeman
Chapter 15 Stabilizing Enzymes as Synthetic Complexes 319
Liliana Gianfreda and Maria A. Rao
Chapter 16 Enzyme Extraction from Soil 371
Flavio Fornasier, Yves Dudal, and Herve Quiquampoix
Index 385