Bacterial β-glucosidase function and metabolic activity depend on soil management in semiarid rainfed agriculture

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 727-731

  Cañizares, Rosa ^a   Moreno, Beatriz ^a   Benitez, Emilio ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Genomics; rainfed farming; Semiarid climate; Transcriptomics; Glucosidase

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880383817     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.88     Document Type: Article

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