Diverse microhabitats experienced by Halomonas variabilis on salt-secreting leaves

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 845-852

  Burch, Adrien Y ^a   Finkel, Omri M ^b   Cho, Juliana K ^a   Belkin, Shimshon ^b   Lindow, Steven E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIERS (MATERIALS); DROPS; ECOSYSTEMS; FLUORESCENCE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SODIUM CHLORIDE;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DESICCATION TOLERANCE; FLUORESCENCE INTENSITIES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HALOPHILIC MICROORGANISMS; HALOPHILIC STRAINS; HALOTOLERANT BACTERIA; NACL CONCENTRATION;

BACTERIA;

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; GROWTH; GROWTH RATE; HABITAT SELECTION; HETEROGENEITY; LEAF; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; MICROHABITAT; MICROORGANISM;

EID: 84873825666     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02791-12     Document Type: Article

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