Archaeal abundance across a pH gradient in an arable soil and its relationship to bacterial and fungal growth rates

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 5906-5911

  Bengtson, Per ^a   Sterngren A E , ^a   Rousk J , ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SOILS;

16S RRNA GENE; ACIDIC CONDITIONS; ALKALINE CONDITIONS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGAL GROWTH; INFLUENTIAL FACTORS; QUANTITATIVE PCR;

ALKALINITY;

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROKARYOTE; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI;

ARCHAEAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; FUNGUS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PH; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; SOIL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; FUNGI; GENES, RRNA; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84866156946     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01476-12     Document Type: Article

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