Taqman real-time PCR assays to assess arbuscular mycorrhizal responses to field manipulation of grassland biodiversity: Effects of soil characteristics, plant species richness, and functional traits

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 76, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3765-3775

  König, Stephan ^a   Wubet, Tesfaye ^a   Dormann, Carsten F ^a   Hempel, Stefan ^a,b   Renker, Carsten ^a,c   Buscot, François ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Natural History Museum Mainz   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI; ASSOCIATED COMMUNITIES; CLONE LIBRARY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ELEMENT CYCLING; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES; FIELD MANIPULATION; FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; HIGH-THROUGHPUT ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE EFFECT; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACERS; JENA EXPERIMENT; NESTED PCR; PLANT FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; PLANT PRODUCTIVITY; PLANT SPECIES; REAL-TIME PCR ASSAY; RIBOSOMAL DNA; SANGER SEQUENCING; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; SOIL PARAMETERS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPECIFIC DETECTION; TIME SAVINGS; TROPHIC INTERACTIONS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLONING; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; SOILS;

ASSAYS;

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA; SOIL;

ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BIOASSAY; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISTURBANCE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GRASSLAND; LAND USE; PARAMETERIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TYPE; TOLERANCE; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCORRHIZA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL; ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES;

BIODIVERSITY; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECOSYSTEM; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL;

ARBUSCULAR; FUNGI; GLOMUS;

EID: 77953635682     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02951-09     Document Type: Article

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