Symbiotic effectiveness and tolerance to early season nitrate in indigenous populations of subterranean clover Rhizobia from S.W. Australian pastures

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 30, Issue 10-11, 1998, Pages 1435-1443

  Unkovich, Murray J ^a   Pate, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; GROWTH PERIOD; INOCULATION; NITRATE TOLERANCE; NITRATE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PLANT GROWTH; SYMBIOSIS;

LEGUME; NITRATE; NITROGEN FIXATION; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SYMBIOSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; TRIFOLIUM SUBTERRANEAN;

EID: 0032171240     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0717(97)00258-7     Document Type: Article

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