Burkholderia phymatum improves salt tolerance of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Phaseolus vulgaris

Plant and Soil

Volumn 367, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 673-685

  Talbi, Chouhra ^a   Argandoña, Montserrat ^b   Salvador, Manuel ^b   Alché, Juan D ^a   Vargas, Carmen ^b   Bedmar, Eulogio J ^a   Delgado, María J ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

13C NMR spectroscopy; Common bean; Nodules; Osmotolerance; Rhizobium tropici

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BACTERIUM; INOCULATION; LEGUME; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OSMOSIS; SALINITY TOLERANCE; SEMIARID REGION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SPECTROSCOPY; SYMBIOSIS; TOLERANCE;

MOROCCO;

BURKHOLDERIA; BURKHOLDERIA PHYMATUM; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; RHIZOBIUM TROPICI;

EID: 84878552160     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-012-1499-6     Document Type: Article

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