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The conversion of amino acids in soils

I. Amino-acid breakdown and nitrification in cultivated and natural soils

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  1. B. E. J. Wheeler

    Present address: Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew

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  1. Department of Botany, University of Bristol, UK

    B. E. J. Wheeler & E. W. Yemm

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These studies comprise part of the data submitted in a Ph. D. thesis to the University of Bristol in 1953.

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Wheeler, B.E.J., Yemm, E.W. The conversion of amino acids in soils. Plant Soil 10, 49–77 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01343737

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