Culture-independent molecular techniques for soil microbial ecology

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 878-887

  Hirsch, Penny R ^a   Mauchline, Tim H ^a   Clark, Ian M ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-DRIED SOIL; ARCHAEA; ELECTRONIC DATABASE; FUNCTIONAL GENES; FUNGAL ACTIVITY; GENE SEQUENCES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; MESSENGER RNAS (MRNA); MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROSCOPIC OBSERVATIONS; MOLECULAR METHODS; MOLECULAR TECHNIQUES; NON-VIABLE; RIBOSOMAL RNA (RRNA); SMALL SUBUNITS; SOIL BACTERIUM; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CELL CULTURE; DNA; ECOLOGY; GENES; NUCLEIC ACIDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOILS;

RNA;

DATABASE; GENE; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77950595690     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.02.019     Document Type: Review

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