Biological nitrogen fixation in non-leguminous field crops: Facilitating the evolution of an effective association between Azospirillum and wheat

Plant and Soil

Volumn 194, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 65-79

  Kennedy, Ivan R ^a   Pereg Gerk, Lily L ^a   Wood, Craig ^a   Deaker, Rosalind ^a   Gilchrist, Kate ^a   Katupitiya, Sunietha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

2,4 D; Azospirillum brasilense; Evolution; NifA lacZ; NifH lacZ; Nitrogen fixation; Para nodules; Symbiosis; Wheat

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; NITROGEN FIXATION;

ACETOBACTER; ARUNDINARIA; AZOARCUS; AZOARCUS SP.; AZOSPIRILLUM; AZOSPIRILLUM BRASILENSE; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FRANKIA; HERBASPIRILLUM; PARASPONIA; POACEAE; RHIZOBIACEAE; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0030705985     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-7113-7_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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