Predominant nifH transcript phylotypes related to Rhizobium rosettiformans in field-grown sugarcane plants and in Norway spruce

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 383-389

  Burbano, Claudia Sofía ^a   Liu, Yuan ^a   Rösner, Kim Leonie ^a   Reis, Veronica Massena ^b   Caballero Mellado, Jesus ^c   Reinhold Hurek, Barbara ^a   Hurek, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b EMBRAPA AGROBIOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM ELKANII; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; RHIZOBIUM; SULFUROSPIRILLUM MULTIVORANS;

EID: 79955945454     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2010.00238.x     Document Type: Article

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