Inorganic nitrogen which comes from soil nitrogen mineralization is the main nitrogen source for plant.
Ammonifying process is the first step of nitrogen mineralization, in which microbes play an important role. This paper
discussed the effects of microbes in ammonifying process from three aspects: the microbial action mechanism of degrading
soil organic nitrogen into ammonia, the infl uencing factors including available carbon to nitrogen ratio, protease and microbial
community structure, and some latest techniques for microbial research. Some researches found that the depolymerization of
high molecular weight soluble organic nitrogen is likely the rate-limiting step in ammonifying process; soil microbial biomass
nitrogen may be the direct and main source of microbial available organic nitrogen; at the same time, soil available carbon to
nitrogen ratio has a signifi cant effect on the production of ammonium. In the end, we introduced some new molecular biology
techniques, especially high-throughput sequencing for research of soil microbes, and suggested the unsolved problems and
possible future research direction.
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