Impact of a soil feeding termite, Cubitermes niokoloensis, on the symbiotic microflora associated with a fallow leguminous plant Crotalaria ochroleuca

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 313-318

  Diaye, Daouda N ^a,b   Duponnois, Robin ^c   Brauman, Alain ^a   Lepage, Michel ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^b UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^c Institut de recherche pour le developpement Ouagadougou   (Burkina Faso)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhiza; Cubitermes; Plant growth; Rhizobia; Termite mounds

Indexed keywords

GROWTH RESPONSE; LEGUME; MYCORRHIZA; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SOIL NUTRIENT; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CELLULAR ORGANISMS; CROTALARIA; CROTALARIA OCHROLEUCA; CUBITERMES; CUBITERMES NIKOLOENSIS; FABACEAE; ISOPTERA; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 0038661704     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00374-003-0591-8     Document Type: Article

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