Amplification of plant beneficial microbial communities during conversion of coconut leaf substrate to vermicompost by eudrilus sp.

Current Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 15-20

  Gopal, Murali ^a   Gupta, Alka ^a   Sunil, E ^a   Thomas, George V ^a  

^a ICAR CENTRAL PLANTATION CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; AZOTOBACTER; COCONUT; EARTHWORM; EUDRILUS; LEAF LITTER; MANURE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONADACEAE; TRICHODERMA; VERMICOMPOST;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CATTLE; COCOS; FUNGI; MANURE; OLIGOCHAETA; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); AZOTOBACTER; CARNATION LATENT VIRUS; EUDRILUS; FUNGI; PSEUDOMONAS FLUORESCENS GROUP; TRICHODERMA;

EID: 67349116497     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: 14320991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-009-9388-9     Document Type: Article

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