Going back to the roots: The microbial ecology of the rhizosphere

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 789-799

  Philippot, Laurent ^a   Raaijmakers, Jos M ^b,c   Lemanceau, Philippe ^a   Van Der Putten, Wim H ^b,c  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATECHIN; NARINGENIN; VANILLIC ACID;

ANDROPOGON; AVENA; BACILLUS CEREUS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMBRETUM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METARHIZIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MYCORRHIZA; NITRIFICATION; NONHUMAN; OOMYCETES; OROBANCHE; PHYTOPHTHORA; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; REVIEW; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; RHIZOSPHERE; SPORE GERMINATION; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE;

BACTERIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT ROOTS; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84887987909     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3109     Document Type: Review

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