Diversity of transcripts of nitrite reductase genes (nirK and nirS) in rhizospheres of grain legumes

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2001-2007

  Sharma, Shilpi ^a   Aneja, Manish Kumar ^a   Mayer, Jochen ^b,c   Munch, Jean Charles ^a   Schloter, Michael ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^c Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHORESIS; ENZYMES; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); NITROGEN COMPOUNDS;

GENE TRANSCRIPTION; NITRITE REDUCTASE GENES; PISUM SATIVUM; RHIZOSPHERE;

FUNGI;

BACTERIAL ENZYME; NITRITE REDUCTASE; RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LEGUME; LUPIN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VICIA FABA;

BACTERIA; CLONING, MOLECULAR; ELECTROPHORESIS; FABACEAE; LUPINUS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRITE REDUCTASES; PEAS; PLANT ROOTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS); VICIA FABA;

FUNGI; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GRAIN;

EID: 17444413782     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.4.2001-2007.2005     Document Type: Article

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