Functional Characteristics of an Endophyte Community Colonizing Rice Roots as Revealed by Metagenomic Analysis

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-36

  Sessitsch, A ^a   Hardoim, P ^a,c   Doring J ^d   Weilharter, A ^a   Krause, A ^d   Woyke, T ^e   Mitter, B ^a   Hauberg Lotte, L ^d   Friedrich, F ^d   Rahalkar, M ^d   Hurek, T ^d   Sarkar, A ^d   Bodrossy, L ^a   Van Overbeek, L ^c   Brar, D ^f   Van Elsas, J D ^b   Reinhold Hurek, B ^d  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^e DOE JOINT GENOME INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOPHYTE; GENE LIBRARY; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METAGENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; QUORUM SENSING; RICE; SYMBIOSIS;

BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENDOPHYTES; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; QUORUM SENSING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84055193613     PISSN: 08940282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1094/MPMI-08-11-0204     Document Type: Article

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