Aluminum-tolerant strains of azospirillum brasilense and their associative nitrogen fixation with finger millet (eleusine coracana) genotypes in an acid soil

Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 9-24

  Rai, Raman ^a  

^a N D UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; NITROGENASE;

ACIDIFICATION; ARTICLE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENOTYPE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PH; PLANT; SOIL MICROFLORA;

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ELEUSINE CORACANA;

EID: 0026047794     PISSN: 00221260     EISSN: 13498037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2323/jgam.37.9     Document Type: Article

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