Responses of soil microbial communities to weak electric fields

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 4886-4893

  Wick, Lukas Y ^a   Buchholz, Friederike ^a   Fetzer, Ingo ^a   Kleinsteuber, Sabine ^a   Härtig, Claus ^a   Shi, Lei ^a   Miltner, Anja ^a   Harms, Hauke ^a   Pucci, Graciela N ^b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Electrokinetics; Microbial community; Microorganism; Phospholipid fatty acids; T RFLP

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; AGRICULTURAL SOILS; AS-SOILS; BULK SOILS; DIRECT ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRO-BIOREMEDIATION; ELECTROKINETIC PHENOMENA; ELECTROKINETICS; MESOCOSMS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; PH CHANGE; PHOSPHOLIPID FATTY ACIDS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS FATTY ACIDS; PORE WATERS; SOIL MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; T-RFLP; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS;

ACIDS; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROOSMOSIS; FATTY ACIDS; IMPURITIES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTION; RNA; SOILS;

PH;

BUFFER; DNA 16S; FATTY ACID; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S;

BIOREMEDIATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTROKINESIS; FATTY ACID; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PHOSPHOLIPID; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; ELECTROLYSIS; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION; TEMPERATURE; BACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRICITY; GENETICS; KINETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRICITY; FATTY ACIDS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; KINETICS; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77955923311     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.06.048     Document Type: Article

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