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Environmental ScienceBiology

The use of phospholipid fatty acid analysis to estimate bacterial and fungal biomass in soil

Å. Frostegård, E. Bååth

1996.4.1BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

DOI: 10.1007/bf00384433

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The cell content of 12 bacterial phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) was determined in bacteria extracted from soil by homogenization/centrifugation and the soil content of the PLFA 18:2ω6 was correlated with the ergosterol content, which supports the use of this PLFA as an indicator of fungal biomass.

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FROSTEGÅRD, Å.; BÅÅTH, E. The use of phospholipid fatty acid analysis to estimate bacterial and fungal biomass in soil. BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS, 1996, 22: 59–65.