• Title of article

    Genetic diversity of rhizobia from natural populations varies with the soil dilution sampled

  • Author/Authors

    Bala، نويسنده , , Abdullahi and Murphy، نويسنده , , Phillip and Giller، نويسنده , , Ken E.، نويسنده ,

  • Pages
    3
  • From page
    841
  • To page
    843
  • Abstract
    Rhizobia were isolated from root nodules of three tree legumes inoculated with dilution series of two tropical soils. The diversity of the isolates obtained from different soil dilutions was assessed by PCR-RFLP analysis of the internally transcribed spacer (ITS) region between the 16S and 23S rRNA genes. In both soils there was a strong effect of dilution on the genetic diversity of the populations with apparent diversity decreasing with increasing dilution.
  • Keywords
    Calliandra , Leucaena , Gliricidia , PCR-RFLP , most probable number , N2-fixation , Nodulation
  • Journal title
    Astroparticle Physics
  • Record number

    1993072