Isolation of Elaeagnus-compatible Frankia from soils collected in Tunisia

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 349-355

  Gtari, Maher ^a,b   Brusetti, Lorenzo ^a   Skander, Gharbi ^b   Mora, Diego ^a   Boudabous, Abdellatif ^b   Daffonchio, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Laboratoire de Microbiologie   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Elaeagnus; Frankia; Genetic diversity; Isolated strains; Soil; Tunisia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; GLUTAMINE;

AGAR MEDIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COLONY; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOASSAY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELAEAGNACEAE; FRANKIA; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHAMNACEAE; RNA SEQUENCE; SOIL ANALYSIS; TUNISIA;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELAEAGNACEAE; FRANKIA; GEOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TUNISIA;

ELAEAGNACEAE; ELAEAGNUS; ELAEAGNUS ANGUSTIFOLIA; FRANKIA; RHAMNACEAE;

EID: 2342572774     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsle.2004.04.001     Document Type: Article

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