Changes in the phyllosphere community of the resurrection fern, Polypodium polypodioides, associated with rainfall and wetting

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 236-246

  Jackson, Evelyn F ^a   Echlin, Haley L ^a   Jackson, Colin R ^a  

^a SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene; Enrichment culture; Epiphytes; Phyllosphere; Resurrection fern; Wetting

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RAIN; RNA 16S;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENRICHMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIPHYTE; FERN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLLOSPHERE; RAINFALL; REHYDRATION; RNA; SPECIES RICHNESS; WETTING;

ACIDOBACTERIUM; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BEIJERINCKIACEAE; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPIPHYTE; FIRMICUTES; GENE SEQUENCE; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; METHYLOBACTERIACEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLLOSPHERE; PLANCTOMYCETES; PLANT MORPHOLOGY; POLYPODIUM; POLYPODIUM POLYPODIOIDES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; REHYDRATION; RIBOTYPING; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; BIODIVERSITY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PLANT LEAVES; POLYPODIUM; RAIN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FILICOPHYTA; FIRMICUTES; PLEOPELTIS POLYPODIOIDES; PLEOPELTIS POLYPODIOIDES POLYPODIOIDES; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 33750085865     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2006.00152.x     Document Type: Article

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