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XXII<br />

Contents<br />

6.5 CMEIAS v. 3.0: In Situ Geostatistical Analysis<br />

of Root Colonization by Pioneer Rhizobacteria . . . . . . . 540<br />

6.6 CMEIAS v. 3.0: Quantitative Autecological Biogeography<br />

of the Rhizobium–Rice Association . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541<br />

6.7 CMEIAS v. 3.0: Spatial Scale Analysis of in Situ<br />

Quorum Sensing by Root-Colonizing Bacteria . . . . . . . . 543<br />

7 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544<br />

References and Selected Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544<br />

28 Analysis of Microbial Population Genetics . . . . . . . . . . 551<br />

Emanuele G. Biondi, Alessio Mengoni<br />

and Marco Bazzicalupo<br />

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551<br />

2 Materials for RAPD, AFLP and ITS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552<br />

3 RAPD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553<br />

4 AFLP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 556<br />

5 ITS-RFLP Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 559<br />

6 Statistical analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561<br />

7 Concluding Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563<br />

References and Selected Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 564<br />

29 Functional Genomic Approaches for Studies<br />

of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567<br />

Gopi K. Podila and Luisa Lanfranco<br />

1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567<br />

2 Material and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568<br />

2.1 Equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 568<br />

2.2 Biological Material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569<br />

2.3 RNA Extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569<br />

3 RNA Quantification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570<br />

3.1 Construction of a cDNA Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570<br />

4 Conversion Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577<br />

4.1 Evaluation of the Quality of the cDNA Library . . . . . . . . 577<br />

5 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578<br />

6 Sequencing Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578<br />

6.1 Data Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579<br />

6.2 Sequence Homology Comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579

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