Roots Shaping Their Microbiome: Global Hotspots for Microbial Activity

Annual Review of Phytopathology

Volumn 53, Issue , 2015, Pages 403-424

  Reinhold Hurek, Barbara ^a   Bünger, Wiebke ^a   Burbano, Claudia Sofía ^a   Sabale, Mugdha ^a   Hurek, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Culture independent analysis; Endophytes; Endorhizosphere; Metagenome; Rhizoplane; Rhizosphere soil

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMBRYOPHYTA;

BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT ROOT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOSPHERE;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANT ROOTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84938698904     PISSN: 00664286     EISSN: 15452107     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-phyto-082712-102342     Document Type: Article

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