Application of the [3H]leucine incorporation technique for quantification of bacterial secondary production associated with decaying wetland plant litter

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 5948-5956

  Gillies, Jane E ^a   Kuehn, Kevin A ^a,b   Francoeur, Steven N ^a   Neely, Robert K ^a  

^a EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; EXTRACTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLANTS (BOTANY); SUBSTRATES;

BACTERIAL PRODUCTION; MICROBIAL ASSEMBLAGES; MICRODIALYSIS; PLANT LITTERS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

LEUCINE; TRITIUM;

AMINO ACID; BACTERIUM; LEAF LITTER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; WETLAND;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM DETECTION; INCUBATION TIME; ISOTOPE LABELING; MICHAELIS CONSTANT; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; PLANT; PLANT LITTER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOENOPLECTUS VALIDUS; TECHNIQUE; TYPHA ANGUSTIFOLIA; WETLAND; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CYPERACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; TYPHACEAE; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SCHOENOPLECTUS TABERNAEMONTANI; TYPHA ANGUSTIFOLIA;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOMASS; CYPERACEAE; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; KINETICS; LEUCINE; MICHIGAN; PLANTS; TRITIUM; TYPHACEAE;

EID: 33748799670     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00696-06     Document Type: Article

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