Green fluorescent protein-marked pseudomonas fluorescens: Localization, viability, and activity in the natural barley rhizosphere

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 65, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 4646-4651

  Normander, Bo ^a   Hendriksen, Niels B ^a   Nybroe, Ole ^b  

^a NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BARLEY; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CELL DIVISION; CELL VIABILITY; CELL VOLUME; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DESICCATION; FLUORESCENCE; INOCULATION; MOISTURE; NONHUMAN; PLANT ROOT; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SOIL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); COCCOIDEA; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; NEGIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 0032857982     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.65.10.4646-4651.1999     Document Type: Article

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