Effects of model root exudates on structure and activity of a soil diazotroph community

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1711-1724

  Bürgmann, Helmut ^a,c   Meier, Stefan ^a,d   Bunge, Michael ^a   Widmer, Franco ^b   Zeyer, Josef ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; CITRIC ACID; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PRIMER DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER; CHEMISTRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MIXTURE; ELECTROPHORESIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ACETIC ACID; AZOTOBACTER; BASE SEQUENCE; CARBOHYDRATES; CITRIC ACID; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPLEX MIXTURES; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITROGEN; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

AZOTOBACTER;

EID: 27444448084     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00818.x     Document Type: Article

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