The influence of the symbiotic plasmid pRL1JI on the distribution of GM rhizobia in soil and crop rhizospheres, and implications for gene flow

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 81, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 607-616

  Clark, Ian M ^a   Mendum, Tom A ^a,b   Hirsch, Penny R ^a  

^a Agriculture and Environment Division   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetic elements; Genetic modification; Plasmids; Rhizoplane; Rhizosphere; Soil

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

GENE FLOW; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; PLASMID; RHIZOBACTERIUM; RHIZOSPHERE;

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BARLEY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; DENSITY; DNA MODIFICATION; DNA REPLICATION ORIGIN; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE FLOW; GENE INSERTION; GENE TRANSFER; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INOCULATION; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; PEA; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; PLASMID; PLATE COUNT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOSPHERE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI; SOIL; SOIL MICROFLORA; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HORDEUM; MEDICAGO SATIVA; ORGANISMS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PEAS; PLANT ROOTS; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; MEDICAGO SATIVA; NEGIBACTERIA; PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 0036417910     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020574009445     Document Type: Article

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