Organic nitrogen-driven stimulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal hyphae correlates with abundance of ammonia oxidizers

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2016, Pages

  Bukovská, Petra ^a   Gryndler, Milan ^a   Gryndlerová, Hana ^a   Püschel, David ^a   Jansa, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

454 amplicon sequencing; Ammonia oxidizers; Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi; Microbial communities; Organic amendments; Quantitative real time PCR (qPCR); Soil heterogeneity; Soil hyphae

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC NITROGEN;

AMMONIA OXIDIZER; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOMASS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PLANT GROWTH; PRINCIPAL COORDINATE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84973575310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00711     Document Type: Article

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