Plant-microbe interactions for sustainable agriculture: Fundamentals and recent advances

Plant Microbe Symbiosis: Fundamentals and Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 51-103

  Nadeem, Sajid Mahmood ^a   Naveed, Muhammad ^a   Zahir, Zahir A ^b   Asghar, Hafiz Naeem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-1287-4_2     Document Type: Chapter

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