Bt-transgenic rice straw affects the culturable microbiota and dehydrogenase and phosphatase activities in a flooded paddy soil

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 289-295

  Wei Xiang, Wu ^a   Qing Fu, Ye ^b   Hang, Min ^a   Xue Jun, Duan ^a   Wen Ming, Jin ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bt transgenic rice straw; Culturable soil microbiota; Dehydrogenase; Flooded paddy soil; Phosphatase

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CULTIVATION; ENZYME KINETICS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROORGANISMS;

MICROBIOTA; TRANSGENIC RICE;

SOIL TESTING;

ENZYME; FLOODING; LABORATORY METHOD; PADDY FARMING; PHOSPHATASE; STRAW;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; MICROBIOTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 1042302220     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2003.09.014     Document Type: Article

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