Potential of rhizosphere bacteria for improving rhizobium -legume symbiosis

Plant Microbe Symbiosis: Fundamentals and Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 305-349

  Mehboob, Ijaz ^a   Naveed, Muhammad ^a,b   Zahir, Zahir A ^a   Sessitsch, Angela ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1287-4_12     Document Type: Chapter

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