Relative and absolute quantitative real-time PCR-based quantifications of hcnC and phlD gene transcripts in natural soil spiked with Pseudomonas sp. strain LBUM300

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-47

  De Coste, Nadine J ^a   Gadkar, Vijay J ^a   Filion, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL RNA; BACTERIAL CELLS; COMPLEX MATRICES; COPY NUMBER; FIELD SOIL; GENE TRANSCRIPTS; IN-CONTROL; IN-VITRO; NATURAL SOILS; NONSTERILE; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; PSEUDOMONAS SP; Q-RT-PCR; QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR; RELATIVE QUANTIFICATION; RNA EXTRACTION; SAMPLING DATES; TECHNICAL PROBLEM; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVITY; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CYANIDES; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); GENE ENCODING; GENE EXPRESSION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; RNA; SOILS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BACTERIAL RNA; PHLD PROTEIN, PSEUDOMONAS;

ACIDITY; ASSAY; BACTERIUM; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERB; INOCULATION; MATRIX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL TYPE; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; STANDARD;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOMONAS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; RNA, BACTERIAL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PSEUDOMONAS SP.;

EID: 79251606607     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01387-10     Document Type: Article

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