Abstract
Nitrification potential bioassay and terpenoid analyses were performed to determine the roles of terpenoid as an inhibitor of nitrification in the Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) forests. The effect of terpenoids in the forest floor was also tested by adding $10{\mu}g/ml$ of four terpenoids(${\alpha}-pinene,{\beta}-pinene,{\gamma}-terpinene, and terpinolene) to mineral soils. The amount of terpenoids in the litter was higher than that in the soil and varied over time, but the amount of terpenoids in the soils was relatively constant. The correlation between the amount of terpenoids in the litter and ammonium oxidation was in inverse proportion to that in the mineral layers $(r^2=0.678)$. Inhibition of ammonium oxidation by terpenoids in the litter was always higher than in the mineral layer, but nitrite oxidation was different from the ammonium oxidation. The fact that there was greater nitrate production from ammonium in the mineral layer than in the forest floor layer seems to be due to the less amounts of terpenoids in the mineral layer. The result of the experiment in which four terpenoids were added to the mineral layer suggests that, after some lag time, the four terpenoids were effective in inhibiting ammonium oxidation. However, nitrite oxidation did not appear to be affected by the four terpenoids. Accordingly, all of our results suggested that terpenoids in Douglas fir forests apparently would act as a part of the inhibitors of nitrification.
Pseudotsuga menziesii 임상에서 질화작용의 억제제로서의 monoterpenoids의 역할을 연구하고자 토양에서의 질화작용과 식물체잎, 낙엽 및 무기토양에서의 monoterpenoids의 함량을 분석하였다. Pseudotsuga menziesii잎이나 임상에서 분석된 monoterpenoids는 대략 16종 이었으며, 그 중 ${\alpha}$-pinene, ${\beta}$-pinene, ${\gamma}$-terpinene 그리고 terpenolene이 대표적인 것들이었다. 임상에 있는 monoterpenoids의 양은 무기토양층에 비해 항상 많았으며, 계절적 변이가 있었으나 토양층은 항상 일정하였다. 질화작용 과정 중 ammonium oxidation 과정은 낙엽층이 보다 더 많은 저해를 받았으나, nitrite oxidation 과정은 두층별간 별 차이가 없었다. 또한 4가지 monoterpenoids(${\alpha}$-pinene, ${\beta}$-pinene, ${\gamma}$-terpinene, terpenolene)를 인위적으로 첨가한 토양에서의 질화작용에 역시 am-monium oxidation 과정은 심히 저해를 받는 반면 nitrite oxidation 과정은 저해를 받지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 이 같은 모든 결과들은 Pseudotsuga menziesii 임상에 있는 monoterpenoids의 영향으로 질화작용에 관여하는 미생물, 특히 Nitrosomonas europaes의 증식이 억제되어 am-monium oxidation 과정이 저해되었음을 시사한다.