High diversity of chickpea Mesorhizobium species isolated in a Portuguese agricultural region

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 101-107

  Laranjo, Marta ^a   MacHado, Jorge ^b   Young, J Peter W ^c   Oliveira, Solange ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ÉVORA   (Portugal)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH DR RICARDO JORGE   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

16S rDNA; Chickpea; DAPD; Diversity; Mesorhizobium; Microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHICKPEA; DIRECT AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA ANALYSIS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM CICERI; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; MESORHIZOBIUM MEDITERRANEUM; MESORHIZOBIUM TIANSHANENSE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RHIZOBIUM; SOIL MICROFLORA; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; CICER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PORTUGAL; PROTEOME; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CICER ARIETINUM; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM CICERI; MESORHIZOBIUM LOTI; MESORHIZOBIUM MEDITERRANEUM; MESORHIZOBIUM TIANSHANENSE;

EID: 1642296085     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsec.2003.12.015     Document Type: Article

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