Diversity of nifH gene pools in the rhizosphere of two cultivars of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) treated with contrasting levels of nitrogen fertilizer

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 279, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-22

  Rodrigues Coelho, Marcia Reed ^a   De Vos, Marjon ^a,b   Carneiro, Newton Portilho ^c   Marriel, Ivanildo Evódio ^c   Paiva, Edilson ^c   Seldin, Lucy ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c EMBRAPA MILHO E SORGO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Diazotrophic communities; nifH sequences; Nitrogen fixation; Sorghum bicolor

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; PROTEIN NIFH; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; AZOHYDROMONAS; BACILLALES; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BURKHOLDERIALES; CULTIVAR; DELFTIA TSURUHATENSIS; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA LIBRARY; ENTEROBACTERIALES; FERTILIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IDEONELLA; METHYLOCYSTIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAENIBACILLUS DURUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIALES; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; RHIZOSPHERE; RHODOSPIRILLALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL; SORGHUM; SPHINGOMONADALES; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; FERTILIZERS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SORGHUM;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM SP.; DELFTIA TSURUHATENSIS; IDEONELLA; METHYLOCYSTIS; PAENIBACILLUS DURUS; RHIZOBIUM ETLI; SORGHUM BICOLOR; UNCULTURED BACTERIUM;

EID: 37349115287     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: 15746968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2007.00975.x     Document Type: Article

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