Competitive PCR for quantitation of a Cytophaga-Flexibacter-Bacteroides phylum bacterium associated with the Tuber borchii Vittad. mycelium

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 6421-6424

  Barbieri, Elena ^a   Riccioni, Giulia ^a   Pisano, Anna ^a   Sisti, Davide ^a   Zeppa, Sabrina ^a   Agostini, Deborah ^a   Stocchi, Vilberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELL CULTURE; FUNGI; RNA;

ECTOMYCORRHIZAL FUNGS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; MYCELIUM; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; TUBER (GENUS); TUBER BORCHII;

ASCOMYCOTA; BACTEROIDES; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOPHAGA; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE DOSAGE; GENES, RRNA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCELIUM; OPERON; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDETES; CYTOPHAGA; FLEXIBACTER; FLEXIBACTERACEAE; FUNGI; TUBER BORCHII; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 0036944625     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.12.6421-6424.2002     Document Type: Article

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