Legume nodule oxidative stress and n2 fixation efficiency

Microbial Ecology of Tropical Soils

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 31-59

  Silveira, Joaquim Albenisio Gomes ^a   Figueiredo, Márcia Do Vale Barreto ^b   Cavalcanti, Fábio Rossi ^a   Ferreira Silva, Sérgio Luiz ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CEARÁ   (Brazil)

^b National Research and Technological Development Department   (Brazil)

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