Effect of oxygen on the free-living nitrogen fixation activity and expression of the Azospirillum brasilense NifH gene in various plant- associated diazotrophs

Symbiosis

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-40

  Vande Broek, A ^a   Keijers, V ^a   Vanderleyden, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Associative nitrogen fixation; NifH induction; nitrogenase activity; oxygen tolerance

Indexed keywords

AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE;

EID: 0029778201     PISSN: 03345114     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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