Liquid serial dilution is inferior to solid media for isolation of cultures representative of the phylum-level diversity of soil bacteria

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 4363-4366

  Schoenborn, Liesbeth ^a   Yates, Penelope S ^a   Grinton, Bronwyn E ^a   Hugenholtz, Philip ^b   Janssen, Peter H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; SOILS;

DILUTION CULTURE; PASTURE SOIL;

MICROBIOLOGY;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ACIDOBACTERIUM; ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CULTURE MEDIUM; DILUTION; GEMMATIMONADETES; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION; VERRUCOMICROBIUM;

BACTERIA; CULTURE MEDIA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACIDOBACTERIUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GEMMATIMONADETES; VERRUCOMICROBIA; VERRUCOMICROBIUM;

EID: 3242782680     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.70.7.4363-4366.2004     Document Type: Article

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