Microbial population and community dynamics on plant roots and their feedbacks on plant communities

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue , 2012, Pages 265-283

  Bever, James D ^a   Platt, Thomas G ^a   Morton, Elise R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

competition; mutualism; pathogen; rhizosphere; specificity; trade offs

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PATHOGEN ASSOCIATED MOLECULAR PATTERN; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; SIDEROPHORE; SURFACTANT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURE; APOPTOSIS; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BIOREMEDIATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DRUG SYNTHESIS; ECTOMYCORRHIZA; FUNGUS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HOST RESISTANCE; LEGUME; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT DISPERSAL; PLANT ECOLOGY; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT ROOT; PLANT TAXONOMY; POPULATION DENSITY; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SOIL; SOIL MICROFLORA; SYMBIOSIS;

BIOTA; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANT ROOTS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84872242032     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: 15453251     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-micro-092611-150107     Document Type: Article

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