Distribution of metabolic activity and phosphate starvation response of lux-tagged Pseudomonas fluorescens reporter bacteria in the barley rhizosphere

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 4920-4928

  Kragelund, Lene ^a,b   Hosbond, Carsten ^a   Nybroe, Ole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b CHR HANSEN A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; PHOSPHATE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BARLEY; BIOLUMINESCENCE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REPORTER GENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0030732212     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.63.12.4920-4928.1997     Document Type: Article

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