Contents

Contributors

Preface

1 Genomic Analyses of Microbial Processes in Biogeochemical Cycles

2 Applications of Nucleic Acid Microarrays in Soil Microbial Ecology

3 Metagenomics for the Study of Soil Microbial Communities

4 In Vivo Expression Technology (IVET) for Studying Niche-specific Gene Expression by Plant- and Soil-colonizing Bacteria

5 Analysing Microbial Community Structure by Means of Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP)

6 Characterization of Phylloplane and Rhizosphere Microbial Populations Using PCR and Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE)

7 Molecular Tools for Studying Plant Growth-promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR)

8 Detection of Autotrophic Sulphur- and Iron-oxidizing Bacteria Using Labelled Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAMEs)

9 Molecular Analyses of Soil Denitrifying Bacteria

10 Ecology of Streptomyces in Soil and Rhizosphere

11 Molecular Ecology of Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Communities: New Frontiers

12 Molecular Ecology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: a Review of PCR-based Techniques

13 Transcriptomics for Determining Gene Expression in Symbiotic Root–Fungus Interactions

14 Differentiation of Nitrogen-fixing Legume Root Nodule Bacteria (Rhizobia)

15 Molecular Markers for Studying the Ecology of Rhizobia

16 Molecular Characterization of Bacterial Plant Pathogens

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