Importance of preferential flow and soil management in vertical transport of a biocontrol strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens in structured field soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 33-40

  Natsch, Andreas ^a   Keel, Christoph ^a   Troxler, Joseph ^a   Zala, Marcello ^a   Von Albertini, Nina ^a   Défago, Geneviève ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRILLIANT BLUE; GROUND WATER; POTASSIUM BROMIDE; RAIN; RIFAMPICIN;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SOIL TREATMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; TRIFOLIUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0030038427     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.62.1.33-40.1996     Document Type: Article

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