Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and rhizobium facilitate nitrogen uptake and transfer in soybean/maize intercropping system

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages 1-10

  Meng, Lingbo ^a,b   Zhang, Aiyuan ^a   Wang, Fei ^a   Han, Xiaoguang ^a   Wang, Dejiang ^a   Li, Shumin ^a  

^a NORTHEAST AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

^{15< sup>N; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Nitrogen transfer; Nitrogen uptake; Rhizobium; Soybean maize intercropping}

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; GLOMUS MOSSEAE; GLYCINE MAX; RHIZOBIUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84934876715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2015.00339     Document Type: Article

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