Microbial traits associated with actinobacteria interacting with plants

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 288-318

  Simao Beaunoir, Anne Marie ^a   Roy, Sébastien ^a   Beaulieu, Carole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

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