Testing potential effects of maize expressing the Bacillus thuringiensis cry1ab endotoxin (Bt maize) on mycorrhizal fungal communities via DNA- and RNA-based pyrosequencing and molecular fingerprinting

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7384-7392

  Verbruggen, Erik ^a,e   Kuramae, Eiko E ^a,b   Hillekens, Remy ^b   de Hollander, Mattias ^b   Kiers, E Toby ^a   Röling, Wilfred F M ^a   Kowalchuk, George A ^a,b   van der Heijdena, Marcel G A ^a,c,d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^c Research Station ART   (Switzerland)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

454-PYROSEQUENCING; AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; AM FUNGUS; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; FUNGAL COMMUNITY; FUNGAL DNA; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROPS; MOLECULAR FINGERPRINTING; NATURAL VARIATION; NETHERLANDS; PLANT GROWTH; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; PYROSEQUENCING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOIL BIOTA; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TERMINAL RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISMS; TIME POINTS;

BACTERIOLOGY; CULTIVATION; DNA; DNA SEQUENCES; FORESTRY; RNA; SOILS;

FUNGI;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ENDOTOXIN; FUNGAL DNA; FUNGAL RNA; HEMOLYSIN; INSECTICIDAL CRYSTAL PROTEIN, BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM; MAIZE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL BIOTA; TOXIN;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAIZE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCORRHIZA; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; ENDOTOXINS; HEMOLYSIN PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCORRHIZAE; NETHERLANDS; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, FUNGAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; ZEA MAYS;

ARBUSCULAR; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; FUNGI; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84868348766     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01372-12     Document Type: Article

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