Impact of Bt corn on rhizospheric and soil eubacterial communities and on beneficial mycorrhizal symbiosis in experimental microcosms

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 6719-6729

  Castaldini, M ^a   Turrini, A ^b   Sbrana, C ^c   Benedetti, A ^d   Marchionni, M ^d   Mocali, S ^d   Fabiani, A ^a   Landi, S ^a   Santomassimo, F ^a   Pietrangeli, B ^e   Nuti, M P ^b,c   Miclaus, N ^a   Giovannetti, M ^b,c,f  

^a Istituto Sperimentale per lo Studio e la Difesa del Suolo   (Italy)

^b Dipto di Biol delle Piante Agrarie   (Italy)

^c Institute of Agricultural Biology and Biotechnology   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^e ISPESL   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; RNA;

BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; SOIL RESPIRATION;

SOILS;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; MYCORRHIZA; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CORN; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOSYSTEM; EUBACTERIUM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MICROCOSM; MYCORRHIZA; NONHUMAN; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL POLLUTION; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ECOSYSTEM; ENDOTOXINS; FUNGI; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; ZEA MAYS;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GLOMUS MOSSEAE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 32044468924     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.11.6719-6729.2005     Document Type: Article

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