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ATTEMPTS to estimate the numbers of nitrifying organisms in soil have usually been made by some form of dilution technique involving culture of the dilutions in liquid media in tubes (see ref. 1). The number of dilutions, and of replicate tubes at each dilution, that are necessary to give reliable estimates, makes this method extravagant of material and time.
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MILLBANK, J. Estimation of Numbers of Nitrosomonas in Soil and Culture. Nature 177, 848–849 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177848a0
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