%0 Journal Article %T Design of a degenerate primer pair to target a bacterial functional community: The hppd bacterial gene coding for the enzyme targeted by herbicides, a study case. %A Thiour-Mauprivez C %A Devers-Lamrani M %A Mounier A %A Beguet J %A Spor A %A Calvayrac C %A Barthelmebs L %A Martin-Laurent F %J J Microbiol Methods %V 170 %N 0 %D 03 2020 %M 31926848 %F 2.622 %R 10.1016/j.mimet.2020.105839 %X The present work aimed to design a degenerate primer pair to target a large part of the hppd soil bacterial community, possibly affected by herbicides. We validated these primers by qPCR and high-throughput sequencing analysis of soil samples.