Rhizobia nodulating African Acacia spp. and Sesbania sesban trees in southern Ethiopian soils are metabolically and genomically diverse

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2013-2025

  Wolde Meskel, Endalkachew ^a,c   Terefework, Zewdu ^b   Lindström, Kristina ^b   Frostegård, Åsa ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c Awassa College of Agriculture   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

African Acacia spp.; Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP); Biolog; Ethiopia; Rhizobial diversity; Sesbania sesban

Indexed keywords

AGRO ECOLOGICAL ZONES; POLYMORPHISM; RHIZOBIAL STRAINS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; ECOLOGY; GROWTH KINETICS; MICROORGANISMS; SOILS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

AGROECOLOGY; NODULATION; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ACACIA; ACACIA SEYAL; ACACIA TORTILIS; FAIDHERBIA ALBIDA; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RHIZOBIACEAE; SESBANIA; SESBANIA SESBAN; VIGNA; VIGNA UNGUICULATA;

EID: 5644248337     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2004.05.020     Document Type: Article

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