Characterization and identification of numerically abundant culturable bacteria from the anoxic bulk soil of rice paddy microcosms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 5042-5049

  Chin, Kuk Jeong ^a   Hahn, Dittmar ^b,d   Hengstmann, Ulf ^a   Liesack, Werner ^a   Janssen, Peter H ^a,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Soil Physics   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDES; FLAVOBACTERIUM; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACILLUS; BACTEROIDES; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM;

EID: 0032752386     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.11.5042-5049.1999     Document Type: Article

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