Specific Detection of Bradyrhizobium and Rhizobium Strains Colonizing Rice (Oryza sativa) Roots by 16S-23S Ribosomal DNA Intergenic Spacer-Targeted PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 3655-3664

  Tan, Zhiyuan ^a,b   Hurek, Thomas ^b   Vinuesa, Pablo ^c   Müller, Peter ^c   Ladha, Jagdish K ^d   Reinhold Hurek, Barbara ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^d INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM; RICE;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0035433191     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.67.8.3655-3664.2001     Document Type: Article

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