Indigenous am fungi and azotobacter isolates, and their screening from citrus seedlings at different levels of inorganic fertilizers application

Indian Journal of Horticulture

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 183-189

  Sharma, S D ^a   Kumar, Pramod ^a,b   Singh, S K ^a,c   Patel, V B ^a,c  

^a DR Y S PARMAR UNIVERSITY OF HORTICULTURE AND FORESTRY   (India)

^b RCF Ltd   (India)

^c INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Arbuscular mycorrhizae; Azotobacter; Citrus; Gigaspora; Glomus

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953330497     PISSN: 09728538     EISSN: 09740112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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