Article
Biodiversity of rhizobia isolated from a wide range of forest legumes in Brazil.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 1998
Moreira F M, Haukka K, Young J P
Abstract excerpt
Tropical forests have a high diversity of plant species; are they associated with a correspondingly rich microbial flora? We addressed this question by examining the symbiotic rhizobium bacteria that nodulate a diverse pool of forest legume species in Brazil. The 44 strains studied had been isola...
Topics
- Brazil
- DNA, Bacterial
- DNA, Ribosomal
- Ecosystem
- Fabaceae
- Genetic Variation
- Gram-Negative Aerobic Rods and Cocci
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Plants, Medicinal
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Rhizobiaceae
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Symbiosis
- Trees
- Tropical Climate