Microbial communities and their interactions in soil and rhizosphere ecosystems

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2002, Pages 211-236

  Kent, Angela D ^a   Triplett, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Community fingerprint; Culture independent community analysis; Microbial diversity; Microbial ecology; Plant microbe interactions

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

AGRICULTURE; CELL INTERACTION; DNA MICROARRAY; EPIPHYTE; GENOMICS; METAL METABOLISM; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; PLANT METABOLISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MUTATION; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 0036405388     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.56.012302.161120     Document Type: Review

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