Calcium affects the competitiveness of acid-sensitive and acid-tolerant strains of Bradyrhizobium japonicum in nodulating and fixing nitrogen with two soybean cultivars in acid soil

Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 115-122

  Indrasumunar, Arief ^a,b   Menzies, Neal W ^b   Dart, Peter J ^b  

^a INDONESIAN CENTER FOR AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND GENETIC RESOURCES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acid sensitive; Acid tolerant; Bradyrhizobium; Competitiveness; Host cultivar Bradyrhizobium interaction; Nodulation; Soybean

Indexed keywords

ACID-SENSITIVE; ACID-TOLERANT; BRADYRHIZOBIUM; COMPETITIVENESS; HOST CULTIVAR BRADYRHIZOBIUM INTERACTION; NODULATION; SOYBEAN;

AMINO ACIDS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; COMPETITION; EXPERIMENTS; GYPSUM; LIME; MANGANESE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PH EFFECTS; STRAIN;

SOILS;

ACID SOIL; ALUMINUM; BACTERIUM; CALCIUM; CULTIVAR; GYPSUM; MANGANESE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NODULATION; PH; SEED; SOWING; SOYBEAN; SYMBIOSIS; TOLERANCE;

BRADYRHIZOBIUM; BRADYRHIZOBIUM JAPONICUM; GLYCINE MAX; MANTA;

EID: 84255175735     PISSN: 00380717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.11.017     Document Type: Article

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