Whole cell hybridization as a tool to study Frankia populations in root nodules

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 696-706

  Hahn, Dittmar ^a   Zepp, Kornelia ^a   Zeyer, Josef ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacteria; digoxigenin; Frankia; in situ detection; in vitro transcripts; oligonucleotide probes; ribosomal RNA; whole cell hybridization

Indexed keywords

FRANKIA;

EID: 0030903988     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.990423.x     Document Type: Article

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