A Drought Resistance-Promoting Microbiome Is Selected by Root System under Desert Farming

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Marasco, Ramona ^a   Rolli, Eleonora ^a   Ettoumi, Besma ^b,d   Vigani, Gianpiero ^a   Mapelli, Francesca ^a   Borin, Sara ^a   Abou Hadid, Ayman F ^c   El Behairy, Usama A ^c   Sorlini, Claudia ^a   Cherif, Ameur ^b,d   Zocchi, Graziano ^a   Daffonchio, Daniele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

^c AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^d Biotechpole Sidi Thabet   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ACHROMOBACTER; ACTINOBACTERIA; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CAPSICUM ANNUUM; CELLULOSIMICROBIUM; CITROBACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DESERT FARMING; DROUGHT RESISTANCE PROMOTING MICROBIOME; DROUGHT TOLERANCE; ENDOSPHERE; FARMING SYSTEM; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; IN VITRO STUDY; KLEBSIELLA; LYSINIBACILLUS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PAENIBACILLUS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT-GROWTH PROMOTING BACTERIUM; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOXANTHOMONAS; RHIZOSPHERE; RHODOCOCCUS; ROOT SURROUNDING SOIL; ROOT SYSTEM; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION;

AGRICULTURE; BACTERIA; CAPSICUM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; METAGENOME; PHYLOGENY; PLANT ROOTS; PLANTS; RHIZOSPHERE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAPSICUM ANNUUM; KLEBSIELLA; RHIZOBIALES;

EID: 84868319504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048479     Document Type: Article

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