Growth response of crops to soil microbial communities from conventional monocropping and tree-based intercropping systems

Plant and Soil

Volumn 363, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 345-356

  Bainard, L D ^a   Koch, A M ^b   Gordon, A M ^a   Klironomos, J N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Cropping system; Soil microbes; Tree based intercropping

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGROFORESTRY; ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZA; BARLEY; CANOLA; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; GROWTH RESPONSE; INOCULATION; INTERCROPPING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL MICROORGANISM; SYMBIOSIS;

ARBUSCULAR; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; FUNGI; GLYCINE MAX; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE;

EID: 84872602495     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1321-5     Document Type: Article

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