Endophytic nitrogen fixation in dune grasses (Ammophila arenaria and Elymus mollis) from Oregon

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 469-479

  Dalton, David A ^a   Kramer, Sasha ^a   Azios, Nico ^a   Fusaro, Suzanne ^a   Cahill, Elizabeth ^a   Kennedy, Christina ^b  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammophila; Dune grass; Endophytic nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE; OXYGEN; RIBOSOME RNA;

ENDOPHYTE; GRASSLAND SOIL; NITROGEN FIXATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BURKHOLDERIA; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENDOPHYTE; GENE SEQUENCE; GRASS; IMMUNOLOCALIZATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CELL; PLANT STEM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; REDUCTION KINETICS; RHIZOME; STENOTROPHOMONAS; UNITED STATES;

ACETYLENE; BURKHOLDERIA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GENES, RRNA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGENASE; OREGON; PLANT STEMS; POACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RHIZOME; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; STENOTROPHOMONAS; SYMBIOSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

AMMOPHILA ARENARIA; AMMOPHILA BREVILIGULATA; AVENA; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA SP.; ELYMUS; LEYMUS MOLLIS MOLLIS; POACEAE; PSEUDOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS; UNIOLA PANICULATA;

EID: 4344685941     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsec.2004.04.010     Document Type: Article

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