Simultaneous detection of different Rhizobium strains marked with either the Escherichia coli gusA gene or the Pyrococcus furiosus celB gene

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 4191-4194

  Sessitsch, Angela ^a,b   Wilson, Kate J ^c   Akkermans, Antoon D L ^a   De Vos, Willem M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c Cambia   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; BETA GLUCOSIDASE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STABILITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; RHIZOBIUM; TRANSPOSON;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; NEGIBACTERIA; PYROCOCCUS FURIOSUS; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0029832338     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.11.4191-4194.1996     Document Type: Article

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