High microbial diversity of the nitric oxide dismutation reaction revealed by PCR amplification and analysis of the nod gene

Microbial nitric oxide dismutation reaction (NOD), involved in the biogeochemical nitrogen cycle on Earth, has been implemented to N removal in laboratory-scale wastewater treatment systems, but microorganisms from relatively a few lineages have been implicated to be associated with this biochemical process. Detection of abundant putative (or novel) nitric oxide dismutase-encoding gene PCR products could confer the diversity of nitric oxide...