Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in non-legumes

Plant-Associated Bacteria

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 105-130

  Dalton, David A ^a   Kramer, Sasha ^b  

^a REED COLLEGE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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