Desert farming benefits from microbial potential in arid soils and promotes diversity and plant health

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Köberl, Martina ^a   Müller, Henry ^a   Ramadan, Elshahat M ^b   Berg, Gabriele ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b HELIOPOLIS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL RNA;

ACIDIMICROBIUM; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARID SOIL; ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEINOCOCCUS; DESERT; DESERTIFICATION; FARMING SYSTEM; FUSARIUM CULMORUM; FUSARIUM SOLANI; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HERBASPIRILLUM; MARIGOLD; MATRICARIA; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAENIBACILLUS; PH; PLANT; PYROSEQUENCING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RHIZOSPHERE; RHODOCOCCUS ERYTHROPOLIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RUBELLIMICROBIUM; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES CULTIVATION; VERTICILLIUM DAHLIAE; WATER SUPPLY; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DESERT CLIMATE; DEUTEROMYCETES; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DROUGHT; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIC FARMING; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ACIDIMICROBIUM; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEINOCOCCUS-THERMUS; FIRMICUTES; HERBASPIRILLUM; PAENIBACILLUS;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIODIVERSITY; DESERT CLIMATE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DROUGHTS; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ORGANIC AGRICULTURE; PLANTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84855175368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024452     Document Type: Article

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