Composition and diversity of nifH genes of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria associated with boreal forest feather mosses

New Phytologist

Volumn 192, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 507-517

  Ininbergs, Karolina ^a   Bay, Guillaume ^a,b   Rasmussen, Ulla ^a   Wardle, David A ^b   Nilsson, Marie Charlotte ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Cyanobacteria; Feather mosses; nifH diversity; Nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

NITROGENASE REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CYANOBACTERIUM; ELECTROKINESIS; HOST SPECIFICITY; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOSS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYLOGENETICS; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BRYOPSIDA; CYANOBACTERIUM; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; SWEDEN; TREE;

BIODIVERSITY; BRYOPSIDA; CYANOBACTERIA; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECOSYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWEDEN; TREES;

SWEDEN;

BRYOPHYTA; CYANOBACTERIA; HYLOCOMIUM SPLENDENS; PLEUROZIUM SCHREBERI;

EID: 80053266351     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03809.x     Document Type: Article

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