Resilience of the rhizosphere Pseudomonas and ammonia-oxidizing bacterial populations during phytoextraction of heavy metal polluted soil with poplar

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1433-1449

  Frey, Beat ^a   Pesaro, Manuel ^b,c   Rüdt, Andreas ^a   Widmer, Franco ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^c ECOGENICS GMBH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; HEAVY METAL; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; ASPEN; BACTERIUM; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA DENATURATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROSOMONADACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOT; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BACTERIA; BIOMASS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; METALS, HEAVY; MICROBIAL VIABILITY; NITROSOMONADACEAE; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; POPULUS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NITROSOSPIRA; POPULUS; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS;

EID: 43449086686     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01556.x     Document Type: Article

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