The plate debate: Cultivable communities have no utility in contemporary environmental microbial ecology

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 358-362

  Ritz, Karl ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CFUs; Cultivable cells; Review; Soil microbial communities

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CULTIVATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BACTERIA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; FUNGI;

EID: 34249010800     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2007.00331.x     Document Type: Review

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