Increased metabolic potential of Rhizobium spp. is associated with bacterial competitiveness

Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 957-967

  Wielbo, Jerzy ^a   Marek Kozaczuk, Monika ^a   Kubik Komar, Agnieszka ^b   Skorupska, Anna ^a  

^a MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES IN LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Competitiveness; Internal transcribed spacer diversity; Metabolic activity; Plasmid diversity

Indexed keywords

DERIVATIVES; GENES; GREENHOUSES; METABOLISM; NITROGEN FIXATION; PLANTS (BOTANY); STATISTICAL METHODS;

BACTERIAL COMPETITIVENESS; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER DIVERSITY; METABOLIC ACTIVITY; PLASMID DIVERSITY;

BACTERIA;

AMINO ACID; CARBOHYDRATE DERIVATIVE; CARBON; CARBOXYLIC ACID;

AMINO ACID; GROWTH; LEGUME; METABOLISM; ORGANIC ACID; PLASMID; RHIZOBACTERIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY RESOURCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LEGUME; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SYMBIOSIS; TILLAGE;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FABACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PLASMIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RHIZOBIUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 23S; SYMBIOSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. TRIFOLII; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE;

EID: 35649014246     PISSN: 00084166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/W07-053     Document Type: Article

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