Bacterial endophytes: The endophytic niche, its occupants, and its utility

Plant-Associated Bacteria

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 155-194

  Bacon, Charles W ^a   Hinton, Dorothy M ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

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