Colonization of wheat para-nodules by the N2-fixing cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. strain 2S9B

New Phytologist

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 373-379

  Gantar, M ^a   Elhai, J ^b  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

2,4 D; Acetylene reduction; Cyanobacteria; N2 fixation; Para nodule; Symbiosis; Wheat

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIUM; HERBICIDE; NITROGEN FIXATION; ROOT COLONIZATION; WHEAT;

NOSTOC;

EID: 0032940265     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1999.00352.x     Document Type: Article

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