Phenotypic variation in Acidovorax radicis N35 influences plant growth promotion

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 751-762

  Li, Dan ^a   Rothballer, Michael ^a   Engel, Marion ^a   Hoser, Jonathan ^a   Schmidt, Thorsten ^a   Kuttler, Christina ^b   Schmid, Michael ^a   Schloter, Michael ^a   Hartmann, Anton ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competitive colonization; MutL; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BARLEY; COLONIZATION; ENDOPHYTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GROWTH; INOCULATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PROTEIN; ROOT SYSTEM; WHEAT;

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMAMONADACEAE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; SYMBIOSIS; WHEAT;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMAMONADACEAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PLANT ROOTS; SYMBIOSIS; TRITICUM;

ACIDOVORAX; HORDEUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84856026685     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: 15746941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2011.01259.x     Document Type: Article

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