Soil microbial community analysis in the environmental risk assessment of transgenic plants

Seishi Ikeda; Nozomi Ytow; Hiroshi Ezura; Kiwamu Minamisawa; Tatsuhito Fujimura

doi:10.5511/plantbiotechnology.23.137

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Soil microbial community analysis in the environmental risk assessment of transgenic plants

Seishi Ikeda, Nozomi Ytow, Hiroshi Ezura, Kiwamu Minamisawa, Tatsuhito Fujimura

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Keywords: environmental risk assessment, plant-microbe interaction, rhizosphere, soil microbial community

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2006 Volume 23 Issue 1 Pages 137-151

DOI https://doi.org/10.5511/plantbiotechnology.23.137

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Abstract

Soil microbial community analysis is one of the most important elements in the environmental risk assessment of transgenic plants. Recent technical advances in this area now enable us to assess the impact of plant genotypes on soil microbial communities with rapid, simple and less biased molecular techniques than the previously used conventional microbiological methodologies. We review the use of these modern molecular techniques from the aspect of environmental assessments of transgenic plants.

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