Analysis of the Endophytic Actinobacterial Population in the Roots of Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) by Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism and Sequencing of 16S rRNA Clones

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1787-1794

  Conn, Vanessa M ^a   Franco, Christopher M M ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLONING; CROPS; MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIAL BIODIVERSITY; POLYMORPHISM;

BACTERIA;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; ENDOPHYTE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LOAM SOIL; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; PLANT TISSUE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA SEQUENCE; STREPTOMYCES; VALIDATION PROCESS; WHEAT;

ACTINOBACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENES, BACTERIAL; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRITICUM;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); KITASATOSPORA; MYCOBACTERIUM; PROKARYOTA; STREPTOMYCES; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 1642399010     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.3.1787-1794.2004     Document Type: Article

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