Modelling sugar diffusion across plant leaf cuticles: The effect of free water on substrate availability to phyllosphere bacteria

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 792-797

  Van Der Wal, Annemieke ^a   Leveau, Johan H J ^a,b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; WATER;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIGHT; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; PLANT LEAF; WALNUT;

BACTERIA; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATES; DIFFUSION; ECOSYSTEM; JUGLANS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERMEABILITY; PLANT LEAVES; WATER;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); JUGLANS; JUGLANS REGIA;

EID: 79952080327     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2010.02382.x     Document Type: Article

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