Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Guedes HV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3768463 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guedes Helma V HV Dos Santos Samuel T ST Perin Liamara L Teixeira Kátia R Dos S KR Reis Veronica M VM Baldani José I JI
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] 20081001 4
A polyphasic approach was applied to characterize 35 G. diazotrophicus isolates obtained from sugarcane varieties cultivated in Brazil. The isolates were analyzed by phenotypic (use of different carbon sources) and genotypic tests (ARDRA and RISA-RFLP techniques). Variability among the isolates was observed in relation to the carbon source use preference. Glucose and sucrose were used by all isolates in contrast to myo-inositol, galactose and ribose that were not metabolized. The results of the ...[more]