A native plant growth promoting bacterium, Bacillus sp. B55, rescues growth performance of an ethylene-insensitive plant genotype in nature

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 3, Issue JUN, 2012, Pages

  Meldau, Dorothea G ^a   Long, Hoang H ^a,b   Baldwin, Lan T ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Institute of Agricultural Genetics   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Bacillus sp.; Ethylene insensitive; Extended phenotype; Microbial community; Nature; Nicotiana attenuata; Plant growth promotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883186490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00112     Document Type: Article

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