Responses of Salt Marsh Plant Rhizosphere Diazotroph Assemblages to Changes in Marsh Elevation, Edaphic Conditions and Plant Host Species

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 386-398

  Davis, Debra A ^a   Gamble, Megan D ^a   Bagwell, Christopher E ^a,b   Bergholz, Peter W ^a,c   Lovell, Charles R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b SAVANNAH RIVER NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; SEA WATER;

ANGIOSPERM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHLOROBI; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOSPHERE; SEASON; SEDIMENT; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

ANGIOSPERMS; CHLOROBI; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHIZOSPHERE; SEASONS; SEAWATER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOUTH CAROLINA; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WETLANDS;

CHLOROBIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; JUNCUS ROEMERIANUS; SALICORNIA; SALICORNIA VIRGINICA; SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA;

EID: 79951517654     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-010-9757-8     Document Type: Article

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