Survival of rhizobia on seed of Desmanthus virgatus stored at different temperatures

Tropical Grasslands

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 28-33

  Becerra Stiefel, Agustin C ^a,b   Date, R A ^c   Brandon, N J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO Tropical Agriculture ^*  (Argentina)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMANTHUS VIRGATUS; RHIZOBIUM;

EID: 2642710051     PISSN: 00494763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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