Microbial Diversity Inside Pumpkins: Microhabitat-Specific Communities Display a High Antagonistic Potential Against Phytopathogens

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 418-428

  Fürnkranz, Michael ^a   Lukesch, Birgit ^a   Müller, Henry ^a   Huss, Herbert ^b   Grube, Martin ^c   Berg, Gabriele ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Agricultural Research and Education Centre Raumberg Gumpenstein   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; FUNGAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; CLASSIFICATION; ENDOPHYTE; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWER; FRUIT; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT ROOT; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SQUASH;

AUSTRIA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS; CUCURBITA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; ENDOPHYTES; ENVIRONMENT; FLOWERS; FRUIT; FUNGI; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CUCURBITA; CUCURBITA PEPO; DIDYMELLA BRYONIAE; FUNGI; LYSOBACTER; LYSOBACTER GUMMOSUS; PAENIBACILLUS POLYMYXA; PECTOBACTERIUM CAROTOVORUM; PEPO; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS CHLORORAPHIS; PSEUDOMONAS VIRIDIFLAVA; SERRATIA PLYMUTHICA; XANTHOMONAS; XANTHOMONAS CUCURBITAE;

EID: 84856744469     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-011-9942-4     Document Type: Article

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