Modern soil microbiology
By: editors, J. D. van Elsas, Janet Jansson, and Jack T. Trevors.
Contributors: Elsas, J. D. van 1951-; Jansson, Janet K.; Trevors, Jack T., 1953-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Books in soils, plants, and the environment
Publisher: Taylor & Francis; CRC Press/Taylor & Francis
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780824727499
Subjects: Soil microbiology; Molecular microbiology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The soil environment / Dominic Standing and Ken Killham; title: Microbial phylogeny and diversity in soil / Vigdis Torsvik, Lise Øvreås; title: Horizontal gene transfer and microevolution in soil / Kaare M. Nielsen, Pål Johnsen, & Jan Dirk van Elsas; title: The bacteria and archaea in soil / Jan Dirk van Elsas, Vigdis Torsvik, Anton Hartmann, Lise Øvreås, and Janet Jansson; title: The fungi in soil / Roger D. Finlay; title: The protozoa and other protista in soil / Marianne Clarholma, Michael Bonkowskib and Bryan Griffiths; title: Microbial interactions in soil / Jan Dirk van Elsas, Ling Tam, R.D. Finlay, K. Killham, and Jack. T. Trevors; title: Plant-associated bacteria - lifestyle and molecular interactions / Jan Sørensen and Angela Sessitsch; title: Microorganisms cycling soil nutrients and their diversity / Jim I Prosser; title: Soil microbial communities and global climate change - methanotrophic and methanogenic communities as paradigms / Ralf Conrad; title: Methods to detect and quantify bacteria in soil / Ole Nybroe, Kristian K. Brandt, Mette H. Nicolaisen, Jan Sørensen; title: Analysis of microbial communities in soil microhabitats using fluorescence in situ hybridization / Michael Schmid, Michael Rothballer and Anton Hartmann; title: Functional characterization of soil microbial communities by messenger RNA analysis / Shilpi Sharma, Manish Kumar Aneja and Michael Schloter; title: Molecular fingerprinting techniques to analyse soil microbial communities / Miruna Oros-Sichler, Rodrigo Costa, Holger Heuer, and Kornelia Smalla; title: Detection of active bacterial populations in soil / Tracey M. Timms-Wilson, Robert I. Griffiths, Andrew S. Whiteley, Jim Prosser, and Mark J. Bailey; title: Soil metagenomics: exploring and exploiting the soil microbial gene pool / Sara Sjöling, William Stafford, and Don A. Cowan; title: Biosensors to monitor soil health or toxicity / Pernille Hasse Busk Poulsen, Lars Hestbjerg Hansen & Søren Johannes Sørensen; title: Soil suppressiveness to plant diseases / Christian Steinberg, Véronique Edel-Hermann, Claude Alabouvette, Philippe Lemanceau; title: Biological pesticides for control of seed- and soil-borne plant pathogens / John M. Whipps and Berndt Gerhardson; title: Plant growth promoting bacteria / Saleema Saleh and Bernard R. Glick; title: Biodegradation and bioremediation of organic pollutants in soil / Kam T. Leung, Kanavillil Nandakumar, and Kurissery Sreekumari; title: Statistical analyses of microbiological and environmental data / Brian B. McSpadden Gardener.