Comparison between parental and variant soybean Bradyrhizobium strains with regard to the production of lipo-chitin nodulation signals, early stages of root infection, nodule occupancy, and N2 fixation rates

Plant and Soil

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 331-341

  Hungria, M ^a   Nishi, C Y M ^a   Cohn, J ^b   Stacey, G ^b  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bradyrhizobium; Competitiveness; Glycine max; N2 fixation; Nod metabolites; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM ELKANII; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 0030449834     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02415528     Document Type: Review

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