Early growth and native nodulation of leguminous shrub and tree species in Brazil

Tropical Grasslands

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 40-48

  Veasey, Elizabeth A ^a   Ghisi, Odete M A A ^a   Valarini, Maria José ^a   Otsuk, Ivani P ^a   Cardelli, Márcia A ^a   Sanchez, Maria Josefa F ^a   Beisman, Darcy A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE ZOOTECNIA   (Brazil)

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