Use of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria to alleviate salinity stress in plants

Use of Microbes for the Alleviation of Soil Stresses

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 73-96

  Egamberdieva, Dilfuza ^a   Lugtenberg, Ben ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF UZBEKISTAN   (Uzbekistan)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auxin; Colonization; Osmolytes; Rhizobacteria; Salinity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929669167     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9466-9_4     Document Type: Chapter

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