Rhizospheric plant-microbe interactions: Key factors to soil fertility and plant nutrition

Plant Microbes Symbiosis: Applied Facets

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 127-145

  Yadav, Brijesh Kumar ^a   Akhtar, Mohd Sayeed ^b   Panwar, Jitendra ^c  

^a PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); CONTAMINATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FUNGI; HEAVY METALS; METAL COMPLEXES; NUTRIENTS; NUTRITION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS;

BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS; BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC STRESS; COST-EFFECTIVE METHODS; INORGANIC PHOSPHATES; PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING RHIZOBACTERIA; PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS; POSITIVE INTERACTION; SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM;

SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL;

EID: 84943266980     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-81-322-2068-8_6     Document Type: Chapter

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