Effect of soil clay content on RNA isolation and on detection and quantification of bacterial gene transcripts in soil by quantitative reverse Transcription-PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 77, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 6249-6252

  Novinscak, A ^a   Filion, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENES; CLAY CONTENT; GENE TRANSCRIPTS; Q-RT-PCR; RNA ISOLATION; SOIL CLAY CONTENT; SOIL SAMPLE;

GENES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SOILS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

ALUMINUM SILICATE; MESSENGER RNA;

CLAY; DETECTION METHOD; GENE EXPRESSION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLAY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOIL;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 80052699951     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00055-11     Document Type: Article

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