Design, development, and use of molecular primers and probes for the detection of Gluconacetobacter species in the pink sugarcane mealybug

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 128-139

  Franke Whittle, Ingrid H ^a,c   O'Shea, Michael G ^b   Leonard, Graham J ^b   Sly, Lindsay I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b BSES LIMITED   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

DETECTION METHOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUGAR CANE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; GLUCONACETOBACTER; INSECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PROBE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SUGARCANE;

ANIMALS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GLUCONACETOBACTER; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INSECTS; LARVA; MOLECULAR PROBES; NEW SOUTH WALES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SACCHARUM;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; QUEENSLAND; WORLD;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLUCONACETOBACTER; GLUCONACETOBACTER DIAZOTROPHICUS; GLUCONACETOBACTER LIQUEFACIENS; GLUCONACETOBACTER SACCHARI; PSEUDOCOCCIDAE; SACCHARICOCCUS SACCHARI; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR;

EID: 26244457459     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-004-0138-z     Document Type: Article

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