Genus- and isolate-specific real-time PCR quantification of Erwinia on leaf surfaces of English oaks (Quercus robur L.)

Current Microbiology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 214-219

  Heuser, Thomas ^a   Zimmer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA 16S; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 23S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DNA DETERMINATION; ERWINIA; ERWINIA PYRIFOLIAE; ERWINIA RHAPONTICI; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OAK; PLANT LEAF; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; ERWINIA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUERCUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DRYAS IULIA; ERWINIA; ERWINIA PYRIFOLIAE; ERWINIA RHAPONTICI; NEGIBACTERIA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ROBUR;

EID: 0041523916     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-002-3902-7     Document Type: Article

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