Description of the colonization of a gnotobiotic tomato rhizosphere by Pseudomonas fluorescens biocontrol strain WCS365, using scanning electron microscopy

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-86

  Chin A Woeng, Thomas F C ^a   De Priester, Wessel ^a   Van Der Bij, Arjan J ^a   Lugtenberg, Ben J J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

microbiological control; rhizosphere colonization

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER RADIORESISTENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0031028808     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI.1997.10.1.79     Document Type: Conference Paper

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