Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Genomic Analyses of Microbial Processes in Biogeochemical Cycles -- 2 Applications of Nucleic Acid Microarrays in Soil Microbial Ecology -- 3 Metagenomics for the Study of Soil Microbial Communities -- 4 In Vivo Expression Technology (IVET) for Studying Niche-specific Gene Expression by Plant- and Soil-colonizing Bacteria -- 5 Analysing Microbial Community Structure by Means of Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (T-RFLP) -- 6 Characterization of Phylloplane and Rhizosphere Microbial Populations Using PCR and Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) -- 7 Molecular Tools for Studying Plant Growth-promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR) -- 8 Detection of Autotrophic Sulphur- and Iron-oxidizing Bacteria Using Labelled Fatty Acid Methyl Esters (FAMEs) -- 9 Molecular Analyses of Soil Denitrifying Bacteria -- 10 Ecology of Streptomyces in Soil and Rhizosphere -- 11 Molecular Ecology of Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Communities: New Frontiers -- 12 Molecular Ecology of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: a Review of PCR-based Techniques -- 13 Transcriptomics for Determining Gene Expression in Symbiotic Root-Fungus Interactions -- 14 Differentiation of Nitrogen-fixing Legume Root Nodule Bacteria (Rhizobia) -- 15 Molecular Markers for Studying the Ecology of Rhizobia -- 16 Molecular Characterization of Bacterial Plant Pathogens -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- X.