Roots of the wetland plants Typha latifolia and Phragmites australis are inhabited by methanotrophic bacteria in biofilms

Flora: Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants

Volumn 207, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 775-782

  Faußer, Anna Charlott ^a   Hoppert, Michael ^b   Walther, Paul ^a   Kazda, Marian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Immunological labelling; Methane oxidising bacteria; Methanol dehydrogenase; Rhizoplane biofilm; Rhizosphere oxygenation; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; MACROPHYTE; METHANE; METHANOTROPHY; MONOCOTYLEDON; OXIC CONDITIONS; OXIDATION; OXYGENATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RHIZOSPHERE; ROOT SYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SUBSTRATE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; RHIZOBIALES; TYPHA; TYPHA LATIFOLIA;

EID: 84870393976     PISSN: 03672530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flora.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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