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Part of the book series: Soil Biology (SOILBIOL, volume 8)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
With millions of different bacterial species living in soil, the microbial community is extremely complex, varying at very small scales. Microbe-driven functions are essential for most processes in soil. Thus, a better understanding of this microbial diversity will be invaluable for the management of the various soil functions.
Nucleic Acids and Proteins in Soil combines traditional approaches in soil microbiology and biochemistry with the latest techniques in molecular microbial ecology. Included are methods to analyse the presence and importance of nucleic acids and proteins both inside and outside microbial cells, the horizontal gene transfer which drives bacterial diversity, as well as soil proteomes. Further chapters describe techniques such as PCR, fingerprinting, the challenging use of gene arrays for structural and functional analysis, stable isotope probing to identify in situ metabolic functions, and the use of marker and reporter genes in soil microbial ecology.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nucleic Acids and Proteins in Soil
Editors: Paolo Nannipieri, Kornelia Smalla
Series Title: Soil Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29449-X
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-29448-1Published: 21 March 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06729-7Published: 12 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-29449-8Published: 22 September 2006
Series ISSN: 1613-3382
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4831
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 458
Topics: Microbial Ecology, Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Soil Science & Conservation