Microbial diversity in soil: Selection of microbial populations by plant and soil type and implications for disease suppressiveness

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 42, Issue , 2004, Pages 243-270

  Garbeva, P ^a   Van Veen, J A ^a   Van Elsas, J D ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Management regimes; Plant effect; Soil microbial diversity and community; Soil suppressiveness; Soil type

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; PLANT DISEASE; REVIEW; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; ECOSYSTEM; FUNGI; PLANT DISEASES; PLANTS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

EID: 4744340843     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.phyto.42.012604.135455     Document Type: Review

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