Nitrosomonas

Hello everyone.I read some articles over net which says that in the Nitrification process of Nitrogen Cycle Nitrosomonas Bacteria converts ammonia to nitrite and Nitrobacter converts Nitrite to Nitrate.But also read some contradicting research articles which stated that instead ...

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Hi, I was just wondering about this question on my first year biology course; Nitrosomonas uses ammonia to reduce an electron transport chain and then ammonia is reduced to nitrate, while Nitrobacters uses nitrate, which is reduced to nitrite...which would produce ...

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Hope this link helps Nitrosomonas ( I'm sorry I have just found this one) http://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/mediawiki-1.6.6/index.php/Nitrosomonas how they can use N2? I think they have their own special enzyme : nitrogenase

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Oh, I think I have to ask some questions, too! 1.Are there any differences between Nitrobacter and Nitrosomonas? I mean about their lives, the way how they can use N2 from air?

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... sure it is NH3 or NH4... oh well, maybe NH3-hehe... so if it happen naturally in an area which lack of lighting and N2... it is hard. and without Nitrosomonas or Nitrosococcus

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