Visualization and direct counting of individual denitrifying bacterial cells in soil by nirK-targeted direct in situ PCR

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 74-80

  Ryuda, Noriko ^a,b   Hashimoto, Tomoyoshi ^c   Ueno, Daisuke ^a   Inoue, Koichi ^a   Someya, Takashi ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR KYUSHU OKINAWA REGION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Denitrifying bacteria; Direct in situ PCR; MPN method; nirK; Soil

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; NITRITE; NITRITE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACHROMOBACTER DENITRIFICANS; AGROMONAS OLIGOTROPHICA; ALCALIGENES FAECALIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS CHLORORAPHIS;

EID: 79953019181     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13426311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.ME10180     Document Type: Article

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