Monitoring impact of a pesticide treatment on bacterial soil communities by metabolic and genetic fingerprinting in addition to conventional testing procedures

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 2814-2821

  Engelen, Bert ^a,d   Meinken, Kristin ^b   Von Wintzingerode, Friedrich ^c   Heuer, Holger ^a   Malkomes, Hans Peter ^b   Backhaus, Horst ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PATHOGEN DIAGNOSTICS   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Unkrautforschung   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR INFECTION RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HERBICIDE; METAMITRON; MINERAL OIL; PESTICIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; MONITORING; PESTICIDE; SOIL;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHEMOSENSITIVITY; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DINOTERB; ECOTOXICOLOGY; MINERALIZATION; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0031902077     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.8.2814-2821.1998     Document Type: Article

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