PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Anshuman Swain
TI  - Exploring the effects of high concentration of glucose on soil microbial community: An experimental study using the soil of North Bangalore
AID  - 10.1101/017061
DP  - 2015 Jan 01
TA  - bioRxiv
PG  - 017061
4099  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/03/25/017061.short
4100  - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/03/25/017061.full
AB  - Substrate Induced Respiration (SIR) is a standard method to study microbial biomass in soil. It is observed that the soil microbial CO2 respiration goes up with the glucose concentration till a certain concentration, and afterwards decreases and stabilizes. There are two possible mechanisms via which this can happen: increased osmotic pressure can kill off a group of microbial population or the Crabtree effect takes over the population. An experiment was designed using the SIR; to find the reason for the same and prove or disprove one of these hypothesises.