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Table 1 Degradation of [13C6]-pyrene and estimated 13C-incorporation into living microbial biomass based on phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis in soil-compost mixture and fertilized soil (controls not shown; see Adam et al. 2015)

From: Microbial communities in pyrene amended soil–compost mixture and fertilized soil

Soil-compost mixture

Fertilized soil

Incubation time [d]

[13C6]-pyrene [% of initial]

13C incorporation into microbial biomass based on PLFA [% of initial]

Incubation time [d]

[13C6]-pyrene [% of initial]

13C incorporation into microbial biomass based on PLFA [% of initial]

0

100

1 ± 0

0

100

1 ± 0

35

64.1 ± 2.5

3 ± 1

16

96.6 ± 6.8

0 ± 1

48

14.2 ± 9.9

14 ± 1

31

95.7 ± 10.4

1 ± 0

64

11.8 ± 0.9

14 ± 1

46

81.1 ± 7.7

1 ± 1

80

6.5 ± 2.3

13 ± 1

71

34.1 ± 6.3

6 ± 1

96

3.3 ± 0.3

13 ± 0

95

23.1 ± 8.9

10 ± 1

160

0.1 ± 0.1

8 ± 1

161

4.9 ± 0.3

10 ± 0

   

203

4.2 ± 0.6

6 ± 1

  1. Incubation times at which matrix DNA and RNA were extracted are printed italics-faced. Values are indicated as mean ± standard deviation (n = 3)