Infection and colonization of aseptically micropropagated sugarcane seedlings by nitrogen-fixing endophytic bacterium, Herbaspirillum sp. B501gfp1

Biology and Fertility of Soils

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-143

  Njoloma, Joyce ^a   Tanaka, Kazunori ^a   Shimizu, Tasuku ^a   Nishiguchi, Tomohiro ^a   Zakria, Muhammad ^a   Akashi, Ryo ^a   Oota, Moriya ^b   Akao, Shoichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b Miyako Branch   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial numbers; Endophytic colonization; Herbaspirillum sp. B501gfp1; Inoculum concentration; Sterile sugarcane plants

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; COLONIZATION; CULTIVAR; ENDOPHYTE; NITRIFYING BACTERIUM; RICE; SEEDLING; SUGAR CANE; WILD POPULATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HERBASPIRILLUM; SACCHARUM SP.; ZIZANIA;

EID: 33646936269     PISSN: 01782762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00374-006-0078-5     Document Type: Article

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