N2-Fixing Endophytes of Grasses and Cereals

Ecological Aspects of Nitrogen Metabolism in Plants

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 231-253

  Reis, Veronica Massena ^a   Vanderleyden, Jos ^b   Spaepen, Stijn ^b  

^a EMBRAPA AGROBIOLOGIA   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autonomous organisms; Cereals; Endophytic microorganisms; Grasses; N2 fixing endophytes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886519653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470959404.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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