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Molecular approaches to soil, rhizosphere and plant microorganism analysis /

This book comprises a comprehensive collection of molecular methods for studying microorganisms that occur in the soil or that are associated with plants, at the community, population, taxonomic and functional group levels. It contains 16 chapters encompassing most techniques that are currently avai...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
Subjects:
Agricultural microbiology > Technique.
Soil microbiology > Technique.
Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000)
Soil Biology.
Microbial Ecology, (New March 2000)
Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002)
Genetics and Molecular Biology of Microorganisms, (New March 2000)
Streptomyces.
Streptomycetaceae.
Biogeochemistry.
Denitrification.
Denitrifying microorganisms.
Ectomycorrhizas.
Endomycorrhizas.
Gene expression.
Genetic markers.
Genomics.
Iron.
Microbial ecology.
Microbial flora.
Microorganisms.
Molecular genetics.
Molecular genetics techniques.
Mycorrhizal fungi.
Mycorrhizas.
Nitrification.
Nitrifying bacteria.
Nitrogen fixation.
Nitrogen fixing bacteria.
Nodulation.
Plant pathogenic bacteria.
Plant pathogens.
Rhizosphere.
Rhizosphere bacteria.
Root nodules.
Sulfur.
Vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizas.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Genomic Analyses of Microbial Processes in Biogeochemical Cycles / Shilpi Sharma, Heidrun Karl and Michael Schloter
  • Applications of Nucleic Acid Microarrays in Soil Microbial Ecology / Alexander Loy, Michael W. Taylor, Levente Bodrossy and Michael Wagner
  • Metagenomics for the Study of Soil Microbial Communities / Helen L. Steele and Wolfgang R. Streit
  • In Vivo Expression Technology (IVET) for Studying Niche-specific Gene Expression by Plant- and Soil-colonizing Bacteria / Hans Rediers and René De Mot
  • Analysing Microbial Community Structure by Means of Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) / Christopher B. Blackwood
  • Characterization of Phylloplane and Rhizosphere Microbial Populations Using PCR and Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) / Maureen O'Callaghan, Nicola Lorenz and Emily L. Gerard
  • Molecular Tools for Studying Plant Growth-promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) / Ashley Franks, Robert P. Ryan, Abdelhamid Abbas, G. Louise Mark and Fergal O'Gara
  • Detection of Autotrophic Sulphur- and Iron-oxidizing Bacteria Using Labelled Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAMEs) / André Lipski
  • Molecular Analyses of Soil Denitrifying Bacteria / Laurent Philippot and Sara Hallin
  • Ecology of Streptomyces in Soil and Rhizosphere / Janice L. Strap and Don L. Crawford
  • Molecular Ecology of Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Communities : New Frontiers / Ian C. Anderson
  • Molecular Ecology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi : a Review of PCR-based Techniques / Dirk Redecker
  • Transcriptomics for Determining Gene Expression in Symbiotic Root-Fungus Interactions / Philipp Franken and Franziska Krajinski
  • Differentiation of Nitrogen-fixing Legume Root Nodule Bacteria (Rhizobia) / Kristina Lindström, Paula Kokko-Gonzales, Zewdu Terefework and Leena A. Räsänen
  • Molecular Markers for Studying the Ecology of Rhizobia / Angela Sessitsch
  • Molecular Characterization of Bacterial Plant Pathogens / Scott A. Godfrey and Robert W. Jackson.

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