Isolation, characterization, and transfer of cryptic gene-mobilizing plasmids in the wheat rhizosphere

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 880-889

  Van Elsas, Jan Dirk ^a   McSpadden Gardener, Brian B ^a,b   Wolters, Anneke C ^a   Smit, Eric ^a,c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DNA TRANSFER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FLAVOBACTERIUM; GENE TRANSFER; HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; REPLICON; SOIL MICROFLORA; WAUTERSIA EUTROPHA; WHEAT;

EID: 0344333449     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.3.880-889.1998     Document Type: Article

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