Measurement of ice nucleation-active bacteria on plants and in precipitation by quantitative PCR

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1256-1267

  Hill, Thomas C J ^a,c   Moffett, Bruce F ^b   DeMott, Paul J ^c   Georgakopoulos, Dimitrios G ^d   Stump, William L ^a   Franc, Gary D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b JCM Laboratory   (United Kingdom)

^c Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL SOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLE; NATURAL VEGETATION; NATURALLY OCCURRING; PANTOEA AGGLOMERANS; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; XANTHOMONAS CAMPESTRIS;

BACTERIA; GENES; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; NUCLEATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SNOW; VEGETATION;

ICE;

ABUNDANCE; BACTERIUM; GLACIATION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; ICE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PLANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; ICE NUCLEATION PROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL LOAD; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; PLANT LEAF; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84893376481     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.02967-13     Document Type: Article

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