Self-transmissible mercury resistance plasmids with gene-mobilizing capacity in soil bacterial populations: Influence of wheat roots and mercury addition

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1210-1219

  Smit, Eric ^a   Wolters, Anneke ^a   Van Elsas, Jan Dirk ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; HEAVY METAL; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; MERCURY; MERCURY CHLORIDE; NALIDIXIC ACID; PLASMID DNA; RNA 16S; STREPTOMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADAPTATION; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; GENETIC RESISTANCE; MARKER GENE; MERCURIALISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RHIZOBIUM; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION;

AGROBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0031965803     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.4.1210-1219.1998     Document Type: Article

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