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IN the course of an investigation into the decomposition of nitrogenous materials in the soil, we have in one experiment found a highly significant correlation between carbon/nitrogen ratio and the formation of both ammonia and nitrate from a series of amino-acids added to the soil.
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OWEN, O., WINSOR, G. & LONG, M. Effect of Carbon/Nitrogen Ratio upon the Formation of Nitrate and Ammonia from Amino-acids in Soil. Nature 166, 152 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/166152a0
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