Disruption of the Paenibacillus polymyxa levansucrase gene impairs its ability to aggregate soil in the wheat rhizosphere

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 333-342

  Bezzate, Samira ^a   Aymerich, Stéphane ^a   Chambert, Régis ^b   Czarnes, Sonia ^c   Berge, Odile ^c,d   Heulin, Thierry ^c,d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^d IRFM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; DAY LENGTH; DRY MASS; ECOLOGY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENETIC STRAIN; HOMOLOGY; INOCULATION; LEVAN; LOAM SOIL; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; RHIZOSPHERE; WHEAT; WILD RELATIVE;

BACILLUS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; FRUCTANS; HEXOSYLTRANSFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PLANT ROOTS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRITICUM;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PAENIBACILLUS POLYMYXA; POLYMYXA; PROKARYOTA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0034543677     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2000.00114.x     Document Type: Article

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