Darian N Smercina

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Smercina, DN., Evans, SE., Friesen, ML., Tiemann, LK. (2020). Impacts of nitrogen addition on switchgrass root-associated diazotrophic community structure and function. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. (link)

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Norman, J.S., Smercina, DN., Hileman, J.T., Tiemann, L.K., Friesen, M.L. (2020) Soil aminopeptidase induction is unaffected by inorganic nitrogen availability. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 149, 107952. (link)

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Smercina, DN., Bowsher, AW., Evans, SE., Friesen, ML., Eder, EK., Hoyt, DW., & Tiemann, LK. (2020). Switchgrass Rhizosphere Metabolite Chemistry Driven by Nitrogen Availability. Phytobiomes Journal, PBIOMES-09. (link) (pdf)

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Lin, V. S., Rosnow, J. J., McGrady, M. Y., Smercina, D. N., Nuñez, J., Renslow, R. S., & Moran, J. J. (2020). Non-destructive spatial analysis of phosphatase activity and total protein distribution in the rhizosphere using a root blotting method. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 107820. (link)

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Smercina, DN., Evans, S. E., Friesen, M. L., & Tiemann, L. K. (2019). To fix or not to fix: controls on free-living nitrogen fixation in the rhizosphere. Appl. Environ. Microbiol., 85(6), e02546-18. (link) (pdf)

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Smercina, DN., Evans, SE., Friesen, ML., & Tiemann, LK. (2019). Optimization of the 15 N 2 incorporation and acetylene reduction methods for free-living nitrogen fixation. Plant and Soil, 1-17. (link) 

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Smercina, DN., Hofmockel, KS., Bailey, VL. Micro on a Macroscale. In prep, Target journal: Trends in Ecology and Evolution

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Smercina, DN., Evans, SE., Freisen, ML., Tiemann, LK. Temporal Dynamics of Free-living Nitrogen Fixation in the Switchgrass Rhizosphere. In prep, Target journal: Global Change Biology Bioenergy

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Smercina, DN., Tiemann, LK., Hoyt, DW., Reid, ML., Friesen, ML., & Evans, SE. Switchgrass carbon allocation following 13C pulse. In prep, Target journal: Soil Biology and Biochemistry.

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Reid, ML., Gonzalez, J., Smercina, DN., Tiemann, LK. Bioenergy crop residues alter decomposition dynamics of soil organic matter. In prep, Target journal: Global Change Biology.

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