Soil microbial community analysis in the environmental risk assessment of transgenic plants

Plant Biotechnology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 137-151

  Ikeda, Seishi ^a   Ytow, Nozomi ^a   Ezura, Hiroshi ^a   Minamisawa, Kiwamu ^b   Fujimura, Tatsuhito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental risk assessment; Plant microbe interaction; Rhizosphere; Soil microbial community

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645855622     PISSN: 13424580     EISSN: 13476114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.23.137     Document Type: Conference Paper

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