Rhizosphere microbiomes of European + seagrasses are selected by the plant, but are not species specific

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAR, 2016, Pages

  Cúcio, Catarina ^a   Engelen, Aschwin H ^b   Costa, Rodrigo ^b,c   Muyzer, Gerard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^c Instituto de Biotecnologia e Bioengenharia Lisboa   (Portugal)

Author keywords

16S rRNA; Amplicon sequencing; Marine bacteria; Plant microbe interactions; Rhizosphere; Seagrass microbiome; Sulfur bacteria; Sulfur cycle

Indexed keywords

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FLAVOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PLANT METABOLISM; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RHIZOSPHERE; SEAGRASS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SULFUR CYCLE;

EID: 84964381029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00440     Document Type: Article

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