Isolation and assessment of microorganisms that utilize phytate

Inositol Phosphates: Linking Agriculture and the Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 61-77

  Hill, Jane E ^a   Richardson, Alan E ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

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