Evidence for a plant-associated natural habitat for Cronobacter spp.

Research in Microbiology

Volumn 160, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 608-614

  Schmid, Michael ^a   Iversen, Carol ^b,c   Gontia, Iti ^d   Stephan, Roger ^b   Hofmann, Andreas ^a   Hartmann, Anton ^a   Jha, Bhavanath ^d   Eberl, Leo ^b   Riedel, Kathrin ^b   Lehner, Angelika ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^d CSIR CENTRAL SALT AND MARINE CHEMICALS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Cronobacter spp.; FISH; Plant association

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; INDOLEACETIC ACID; PHOSPHATE; SIDEROPHORE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPHYTE; ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HABITAT SELECTION; MAIZE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROHABITAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE PROBE; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLUBILIZATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TOMATO;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INDOLEACETIC ACIDS; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHATES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIDEROPHORES; ZEA MAYS;

ENTEROBACTER SAKAZAKII; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 67651204275     PISSN: 09232508     EISSN: 17697123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resmic.2009.08.013     Document Type: Article

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