Nutrient salts and the toxicity of black-layer induced by cyanobacteria and Desulfovibrio desulfuricans to Agrostis palustris

Plant and Soil

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-60

  Hodges, Clinton F ^a   Campbell, Douglas A ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algae; Bacteria; Biofilm; Black plug; Black layer; Calcium carbonate; Chelated iron; Creeping bentgrass; Cyanobacteria; Fructose; Golf greens; Nostoc; Oscillatoria; Phormidium; Root growth; Sulfate reduction; Sulfur

Indexed keywords

AGROSTIS PALUSTRIS; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS;

EID: 0030772229     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004283326204     Document Type: Article

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