Diversity and activity of free-living nitrogen-fixing bacteria and total bacteria in organic and conventionally managed soils

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 911-919

  Orr, Caroline H ^a   James, Angela ^a   Leifert, Carlo ^b   Cooper, Julia M ^b   Cummings, Stephen P ^a  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA GENE; AGRICULTURAL SOILS; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL DIVERSITY; CROP PROTECTION; CROP ROTATION; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENGLAND; FARMING SYSTEM; FERTILITY MANAGEMENT; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NITROGEN FIXING BACTERIA; QUANTITATIVE PCR; SOIL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; SOIL SAMPLE; SPACE AND TIME; SYSTEMS COMPARISON;

AGRONOMY; BACTERIOLOGY; CROPS; ECOLOGY; ELECTROPHORESIS; EXTRACTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; ROTATION;

SOILS;

RNA 16S;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CROP ROTATION; FARMING SYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BARLEY; CLASSIFICATION; CROP; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LEGUME; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGRICULTURE; BACTERIA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ENGLAND; FABACEAE; HORDEUM; NITROGEN FIXATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 79551484583     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01250-10     Document Type: Article

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