Endophytic colonization ability of two deep-water rice endophytes, Pantoea sp. and Ochrobactrum sp. using green fluorescent protein reporter

Biotechnology Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 425-429

  Verma, Subhash C ^a   Singh, Anamika ^a   Chowdhury, Soumitra Paul ^a   Tripathi, Anil K ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Competitive colonization; Confocal laser scanning microscopy; Green fluorescent protein; Ochrobactrum sp.; Pantoea sp.

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; CELL DIVISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; EVALUATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; OCHROBACTRUM; PANTOEA; PHYSIOLOGY; REPORTER GENE; RICE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

CELL DIVISION; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GENES, REPORTER; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; OCHROBACTRUM; ORYZA SATIVA; PANTOEA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); OCHROBACTRUM; OCHROBACTRUM SP.; PANTOEA; PANTOEA SP.;

EID: 1642265062     PISSN: 01415492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BILE.0000018263.94440.ab     Document Type: Article

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