Utilization of the acetylene reduction assay to screen for tolerance of symbiotic N2 fixation to limiting P nutrition in common bean

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 227-232

  Vadez, Vincent ^a   Beck, Douglas P ^b   Lasso, Jesus H ^c   Drevon, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b Inter American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture Costa Rica   (Costa Rica)

^c INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Acetylene; biodiversity; common bean; induced decline; nitrogenase; ontogeny; Phaseolus vulgaris; phosphorus deficiency

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031047687     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3054.1997.990203.x     Document Type: Article

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