Characterization of xylanolytic bacteria present in the bract phyllosphere of the date palm Phoenix dactylifera

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 181-187

  Rivas, R ^a,b   Garcia Fraile P ^a   Mateos, P F ^a   Martinez Molina E ^a   Velazquez E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Acinetobacter; Bacteria; Paenibacillus; Phyllosphere; Pseudomonas; Xylan

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; RNA;

'DRY' [; ACINETOBACTERS; CLASSIFIEDS; DATE PALM; DEGRADING BACTERIA; PAENIBACILLUS; PALM-TREE; PHYLLOSPHERES; PSEUDOMONA; XYLAN;

BACTERIA;

RIBOSOME RNA; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIODIVERSITY; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

BACTERIUM; EVERGREEN TREE; PHYLLOSPHERE; POLYMER;

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAENIBACILLUS; PALM TREE; PHENOTYPE; PSEUDOMONAS; TREE;

ACINETOBACTER; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; PAENIBACILLUS; PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS;

EID: 33846456991     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2006.02050.x     Document Type: Article

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