Cold-tolerant PGPRs as bioinoculants for stress management

Bacteria in Agrobiology: Stress Management

Volumn 9783642234651, Issue , 2012, Pages 95-118

  Mishra, Pankaj Kumar ^a   Bisht, Shekhar Chandra ^a   Bisht, Jaideep Kumar ^a   Bhatt, Jagdish Chandra ^a  

^a VIVEKANANDA INSTITUTE OF HILL AGRICULTURE   (India)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23465-1_6     Document Type: Chapter

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