The challenge of establishing symbiotic nitrogen fixation in cereals

Nitrogen Fixation in Crop Production

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 35-63

  Cocking, Edward C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacterial nodulation; Biofuel production; Cereals; Endophytic diazotrophic bacteria; Nonnodular intracellular colonization; Symbiotic nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877276707     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2134/agronmonogr52.c3     Document Type: Chapter

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