The diversity of rhizobia nodulating chickpea (Cicer arietinum) under water deficiency as a source of more efficient inoculants

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2568-2572

  Ben Romdhane, Samir ^a   Trabelsi, Mustapha ^b   Aouani, Mohamed Elarbi ^c   de Lajudie, Philippe ^d   Mhamdi, Ridha ^a  

^a CENTRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE BORJ CÉDRIA   (Tunisia)

^b Higher School of Agriculture of Mateur University of Carthage   (Tunisia)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SYMBIOSES TROPICALES ET MÉDITERRANÉENNES   (France)

Author keywords

Chickpea; Drought stress; Rhizobia

Indexed keywords

16S RDNA; ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; BIOMASS PRODUCTIONS; CHICKPEA; CICER ARIETINUM; DROUGHT STRESS; DRY WEIGHT; EFFECT OF WATER; ENSIFER; GRAIN YIELD; INTERGENIC SPACERS; NACL TOLERANCE; NODULATION; PCR-RFLP; RHIZOBIA; SALT TOLERANT; UNDER WATER; WATER DEFICIENCY; WATERING REGIMES;

ARID REGIONS; BIOMASS; DROUGHT; PLANTS (BOTANY); SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER TREATMENT;

WATER ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS; CROP YIELD; CULTIVAR; DNA; DROUGHT RESISTANCE; INOCULATION; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LEGUME; NODULATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIZOBACTERIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CICER ARIETINUM; MESORHIZOBIUM; MESORHIZOBIUM MEDITERRANEUM; RHIZOBIACEAE; SINORHIZOBIUM MELILOTI;

EID: 70350573491     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.09.020     Document Type: Article

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