Rhizosphere bacterial population flux in golf course putting greens in the southeastern United States

HortScience

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1754-1758

  Elliott, M L ^a   Guertal, E A ^b   Skipper, H D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinomycetes; Agrostis; Bacteria; Bentgrass; Bermudagrass; Cynodon; Fluorescent pseudomonads

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; GROWTH KINETICS; PLANTS (BOTANY); POPULATION STATISTICS;

AEROBIC BACTERIA; BERMUDAGRASS; GLOF COURSE;

BACTERIA;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; GROWTH RATE; PLANTS; RHIZOSPHERES;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); AGROSTIS; AGROSTIS PALUSTRIS; AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA VAR. PALUSTRIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYNODON; CYNODON DACTYLON; CYNODON TRANSVAALENSIS; NEGIBACTERIA; POACEAE; POSIBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS GROUP; UNCULTURED ACTINOMYCETE;

EID: 9244240340     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.39.7.1754     Document Type: Article

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