Oxygen-sensing reporter strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens for monitoring the distribution of low-oxygen habitats in soil

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 4085-4093

  Højberg, Ole ^a,b,c   Schnider, Ursula ^a   Winteler, Harald V ^a,d   Sørensen, Jan ^b   Haas, Dieter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^d Arpida Ltd   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGININE DEIMINASE; FUMARATE REDUCTASE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOSENSOR; GENE EXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SOIL POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0032826456     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.9.4085-4093.1999     Document Type: Article

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