Feasibility of EPS-producing bacterial inoculation to speed up the sand aggregation in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Northwestern China

Journal of Basic Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1378-1386

  Wu, Nan ^a   Pan, Hui Xia ^a   Qiu, Dong ^b   Zhang, Yuan Ming ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b XINJIANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

16S rRNA gene sequence; Acetylene reduction assay; Biological soil crusts; Extracellular polymeric substances; Paenibacillus mucilaginosus

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PAENIBACILLUS;

BIOPOLYMER; CARBON DIOXIDE; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RNA 16S; SOIL;

AGRICULTURAL INOCULATION; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; DESERT CLIMATE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PAENIBACILLUS; PHYLOGENY; SOIL;

AGRICULTURAL INOCULANTS; BIOPOLYMERS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHINA; DESERT CLIMATE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; NITROGEN; PAENIBACILLUS; PHOSPHORUS; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84916603061     PISSN: 0233111X     EISSN: 15214028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jobm.201400355     Document Type: Article

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