title: Agricultural soils, pesticides and microbial diversity.
abstract: Pesticide effects on microbial community structure and activity in soil are reviewed, showing that methodological developments within the past few years have generated new possibilities for assessing pesticide effects. The first example is the use of mRNA quantification showing that nitrification processes are indeed very susceptible to some pesticides, and that there is correlation between the mRNA transcript quantity and the nitrification rate. The second example is devoted to pesticides influencing microbial community structures. The emergence of high throughput sequencing techniques now allows a more detailed analysis of which bacterial species are influenced.
authors.affiliation: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Geochemistry, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Center for Permafrost, CENPERM, University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark. Electronic address: csj@geus.dk.
authors.forename: Carsten Suhr
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Jacobsen
authors.affiliation: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Department of Geochemistry, Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark; Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
authors.forename: Mathis Hjort
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Hjelmsø
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D001419:Bacteria / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D044822:Biodiversity; D010575:Pesticides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics; D012987:Soil / Q000737:chemistry*; D012988:Soil Microbiology; D012989:Soil Pollutants / Q000737:chemistry / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D010575:Pesticides; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D012987:Soil; D012989:Soil Pollutants