Season, Irrigation, Leaf Age, and Escherichia coli Inoculation Influence the Bacterial Diversity in the Lettuce Phyllosphere

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Williams, Thomas R ^a   Moyne, Anne Laure ^a   Harris, Linda J ^a   Marco, Maria L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ACIDOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA; ARTHROBACTER; ARTICLE; BACILLACEAE; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTEROIDETES; BRENNERIA; CITROBACTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEINOCOCCUS; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERWINIA; ESCHERICHIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; EXIGUOBACTERIUM; FIRMICUTES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEMMATIMONADETES; INOCULATION; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LACTOCOCCUS; LEAF AGE; LETTUCE; LEUCONOSTOC; LEUCONOSTOCACEAE; MASSILIA; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NITROSPIRA; NONHUMAN; OXALOBACTERACEAE; PANTOEA; PLANTING TIME; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PYROSEQUENCING; RAOUTELLA; RNA SEQUENCE; SPHINGOMONAS; STREPTOCOCCACEAE; STREPTOCOCCUS; TATUMELLA; THERMUS; UNITED STATES; XANTHOMONAS;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI O157; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; LETTUCE; MICROBIOTA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT LEAVES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEASONS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FIRMICUTES; LACTUCA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 84879743032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068642     Document Type: Article

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