Effects of plant biomass, plant diversity, and water content on bacterial communities in soil lysimeters: Implications for the determinants of bacterial diversity

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 6916-6929

  Zul, Delita ^a   Denzel, Sabine ^a,b   Kotz, Andrea ^a   Overmann, Jörg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CELL CULTURE; ECOSYSTEMS; LYSIMETERS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOILS;

GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RHIZOSPHERE; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

BACTERIA;

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; LYSIMETER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL WATER; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER CONTENT;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CHLOROFLEXI; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LYSIMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANCTOMYCETES; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; RHIZOSPHERE; ROOT EXUDATE; SOIL MICROFLORA; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VERRUCOMICROBIA; WATER CONTENT;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); EMBRYOPHYTA; FIRMICUTES; PLANCTOMYCETES; VERRUCOMICROBIA;

EID: 35948961572     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01533-07     Document Type: Article

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