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2010.03.20 Sat

Japanese Researchers Uncover Chemical Process of Leaf Litter Turning into Organic Soil Matter


The Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute in Japan announced on September 9, 2009, that it had, for the first time, uncovered the chemical process behind leaf litter decomposing into soil organic matter. The study was conducted jointly with National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, using solid-state 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, which is a useful tool for analyzing the chemical structure of organic matter in fallen leaves and soil without any complicated pretreatment.

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