Efficient colonization of plant roots by the plant growth promoting bacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB42, engineered to express green fluorescent protein

Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 151, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 303-311

  Fan, Ben ^a,c   Chen, Xiao Hua ^a   Budiharjo, Anto ^a   Bleiss, Wilfrid ^a   Vater, Joachim ^b   Borriss, Rainer ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens; Green fluorescent protein; Plant root colonization; Surfactin

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACILLUS AMYLOLIQUEFACIENS; CONFOCAL LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LABORATORY CONDITIONS; LEMNA MINOR; LIPOPEPTIDES; LONG LASTING; PLANT COLONIZATION; PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING BACTERIUM; PLANT ROOT COLONIZATION; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTLETS; POLYKETIDES; REAL TIME RT-PCR; ROOT TIP; SURFACTIN; TRANSFORMANTS; ZEA MAYS;

BACILLI; BACTERIOLOGY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; ECOLOGY; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); PLANTS (BOTANY); PROTEINS;

FLUORESCENCE;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; LIPOPEPTIDE; POLYKETIDE; SURFACTIN;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; BACILLUS AMYLOLIQUEFACIENS; BACTERIAL CHROMOSOME; BACTERIUM MUTANT; BIOFILM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUORESCENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MAIZE; MENTAL HEALTH; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACILLUS; BIOFILMS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PLANT ROOTS; RHIZOSPHERE; ZEA MAYS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BACILLUS AMYLOLIQUEFACIENS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); LEMNA; LEMNA MINOR; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 79951550994     PISSN: 01681656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiotec.2010.12.022     Document Type: Article

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