Abundance and Diversity of Ammonia-Oxidizing Prokaryotes in the Root-Rhizosphere Complex of Miscanthus × giganteus Grown in Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soils

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1038-1046

  Ollivier, Julien ^a,d   Wanat, Nastasia ^a,b   Austruy, Annabelle ^c   Hitmi, Adnane ^c   Joussein, Emmanuel ^b   Welzl, Gerhard ^d   Munch, Jean Charles ^a   Schloter, Michael ^d  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; AMMONIA MONOOXYGENASE; ARSENIC; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOT; POACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL POLLUTANT;

AMMONIA; ARCHAEA; ARSENIC; BACTERIA; LEAD; METALS, HEAVY; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; POACEAE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MISCANTHUS; NITROSOMONADALES; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84867686604     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-012-0078-y     Document Type: Article

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