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Descriptor English: Denitrification
Descriptor Spanish: Desnitrificación
Descriptor desnitrificación
Scope note: Proceso de reducción de NITRATOS generalmente mediado por BACTERIAS ANAEROBIAS y mediante el cual el NITRÓGENO de que disponen las PLANTAS adopta forma gaseosa y abandona el SUELO o la columna de AGUA. Forma parte del CICLO DEL NITRÓGENO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Desnitrificação
Descriptor French: Dénitrification
Entry term(s): Denitrifications
Tree number(s): G02.111.587.250
G02.607.560.250
G16.500.768.249
SP4.606.635.251.567.309
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D058440
Scope note: Nitrate reduction process generally mediated by anaerobic bacteria by which nitrogen available to plants is converted to a gaseous form and lost from the soil or water column. It is a part of the nitrogen cycle.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Nitrates (1963-2010)
Public MeSH Note: 2011
History Note: 2011
Related: Activated Sludges DeCS
Biological Treatment DeCS
Nitrogen Cycle MeSH
DeCS ID: 54320
Unique ID: D058440
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Date Established: 2011/01/01
Date of Entry: 2010/06/25
Revision Date: 2016/06/23
Denitrification - Preferred
Concept UI M0542391
Scope note Nitrate reduction process generally mediated by anaerobic bacteria by which nitrogen available to plants is converted to a gaseous form and lost from the soil or water column. It is a part of the nitrogen cycle.
Preferred term Denitrification
Entry term(s) Denitrifications



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