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Plant age and genotype affect the bacterial community composition in the tuber rhizosphere of field-grown sweet potato plants.
FEMS microbiology ecology - 1 May 2014
Marques Joana M, da Silva Thais F, Vollu Renata E, Blank Arie F, Ding Guo-Chun, Seldin Lucy, Smalla Kornelia
Abstract excerpt
The hypothesis that sweet potato genotypes containing different starch yields in their tuberous roots can affect the bacterial communities present in the rhizosphere (soil adhering to tubers) was tested in this study. Tuberous roots of field-grown sweet potato of genotypes IPB-149 (commercial genotype), IPB-052, and IPB-137 were sampled three and six months after planting and analyzed by denaturing gradient gel...
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