Molecular characterisation of the diazotrophic bacterial community in uninoculated and inoculated field-grown sugarcane (Saccharum sp.)

Plant and Soil

Volumn 356, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 83-99

  Fischer, Doreen ^a   Pfitzner, Barbara ^a   Schmid, Michael ^a   Simões Araújo, Jean L ^b   Reis, Veronica M ^b   Pereira, William ^b   Ormeño Orrillo, Ernesto ^c   Hai, Brigitte ^a   Hofmann, Andreas ^a   Schloter, Michael ^a   Martinez Romero, Esperanza ^c   Baldani, Jose Ivo ^b   Hartmann, Anton ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

16S ribosomal RNA; Biological nitrogen fixation; Molecular community analysis; nifH transcripts; Sugarcane (Saccharum sp.)

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; CULTIVATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INOCULATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NITROGEN FIXATION; SUGAR CANE;

BRAZIL; RIO DE JANEIRO [BRAZIL];

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM SP.; BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA TROPICA; GLUCONACETOBACTER; GLUCONACETOBACTER DIAZOTROPHICUS; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM SP.; SACCHARUM SP.;

EID: 84862645577     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-011-0812-0     Document Type: Article

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