Analysis of plant-bacteria interactions in their native habitat: Bacterial communities associated with wild tobacco are independent of endogenous jasmonic acid levels and developmental stages

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Santhanam, Rakesh ^a   Groten, Karin ^a   Meldau, Dorothea G ^a   Baldwin, Ian T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE; JASMONIC ACID; SALICYLIC ACID; CHLOROPLAST DNA; CYCLOPENTANE DERIVATIVE; OXYLIPIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GENOTYPE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; LEAF TISSUE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NICOTIANA; NICOTIANA ATTENUATA; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; PLANT ROOT; PYROSEQUENCING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SPECIES HABITAT; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROFLORA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; TOBACCO;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CYCLOPENTANES; DNA, CHLOROPLAST; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MICROBIOTA; OXYLIPINS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT ROOTS; TOBACCO;

EID: 84899628649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094710     Document Type: Article

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