Strain-specific colonization pattern of Rhizoctonia antagonists in the root system of sugar beet

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 124-135

  Zachow, Christin ^a   Fatehi, Jamshid ^b   Cardinale, Massimiliano ^a   Tilcher, Ralf ^c   Berg, Gabriele ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MASE Laboratories AB   (Sweden)

^c KWS SAAT SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

BCA; DsRed; fluorescence labelling; GFP; rhizosphere; sugar beet

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; BACTERIUM; BIOCONTROL AGENT; COLONIZATION; ENDOPHYTE; FLUORESCENCE; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; MICROSCOPY; MORPHOLOGY; RHIZOSPHERE; ROOT COLONIZATION; ROOT SYSTEM; SPORE; SUGAR BEET; SURVIVAL;

ANTIBIOSIS; ARTICLE; BEET; COCULTURE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HYPHOMYCETES; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT ROOT; PSEUDOMONAS; RHIZOSPHERE; SERRATIA; TRICHODERMA;

ANTIBIOSIS; BETA VULGARIS; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; PSEUDOMONAS; RHIZOCTONIA; RHIZOSPHERE; SERRATIA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRICHODERMA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BETA VULGARIS SUBSP. VULGARIS; FUNGI; HYPHOMYCETES; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS; PSEUDOMONAS TRIVIALIS; RHIZOCTONIA; SERRATIA PLYMUTHICA; THANATEPHORUS CUCUMERIS; TRICHODERMA; TRICHODERMA VELUTINUM;

EID: 77956518721     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2010.00930.x     Document Type: Article

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