Relationships between rhizobial diversity and host legume nodulation and nitrogen fixation in tropical ecosystems

Nutrient Cycling in Agroecosystems

Volumn 76, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 319-330

  Bala, Abdullahi ^a   Giller, Ken E ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Nigeria)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ecological adaptation; N2 fixation; Nodulation; Rhizobial diversity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; BIODIVERSITY; DOMINANCE; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; RHIZOBACTERIUM; RNA; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

CALLIANDRA CALOTHYRSUS; GLIRICIDIA SEPIUM; LEUCAENA LEUCOCEPHALA; MESORHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIACEAE; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI; SESBANIA SESBAN; SINORHIZOBIUM;

EID: 33845392627     PISSN: 13851314     EISSN: 15730867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10705-005-2003-y     Document Type: Article

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