Abstract
Classic methods of soil amino acid (SAA) determination involve field collection of soils and disturbance during storage, sieving, mixing and extraction in the laboratory. We describe a novel inexpensive method for extraction of SAA's in situ with minimal soil disturbance. In a comparison between methods of SAA extraction from a semiarid grassland site, glu-x and arginine were the dominant SAA nitrogen sources detected by the novel method while serine and glycine were the dominant SAA nitrogen sources detected using the classic method. The extraction method employed is likely to be useful for accurate determination of SAA availability to plants and soil microbes.
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