Plant-growth-promoting rhizobacteria: drought stress alleviators to ameliorate crop production in drylands

Annals of Microbiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 35-42

  Kaushal, Manoj ^a   Wani, Suhas P ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR THE SEMI ARID TROPICS ICRISAT   (India)

Author keywords

Drought stress; EPS; LapA; PGPR; RIDER; VOCs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84957938562     PISSN: 15904261     EISSN: 18692044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13213-015-1112-3     Document Type: Review

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