User:David Johnston Monje/Notebook/Maize Endophyte Biofertilizers/2013/03/26

Applied Soil Microbial Ecology

Remains of the Day

Edited Australia report and sent it
Cutting up more potatoes for tissue culture - need about 150 more tubes
Stephanie found a great paper for us to develop the tomato disease bioassay - "Suppression of bacterial spot of tomato with foliar sprays of compost extracts under greenhouse and field conditions" by Jaber H Al-Dahmani, Pervaiz A Abbasi, Sally A Miller, Harry A J Hoitink in Plant Disease (2003)
Sent NRC TVD rhizosphere TRFL Psamples to Guelph for analysis
Extracting pertinent physically captured TRFLP fragments from the weekend gel. Went as far as ligating them to pGEM, but unsure about the quality of the A tailing (only 5 ul of liquid and I didn't do it with hot lid so there was evaporation)