Plant roots and carbon sequestration

Current Science

Volumn 91, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 885-890

  Kumar, Rajeew ^a   Pandey, Sharad ^a   Pandey, Apurv ^a  

^a G B PANT UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon; Roots; Sequestration; Soil; Sustainable agriculture

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750491071     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: 00113891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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