The role of soil microbes in crop biofortification

Agriculturally Important Microbes for Sustainable Agriculture

Volumn 1, Issue , 2017, Pages 333-356

  Daly, Darren Heenan ^a   Velivelli, Siva L S ^b   Prestwich, Barbara Doyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofortification; Micronutrients; Plant growth promoting microbes; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

AGRONOMY; BACTERIA; CROPS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRACE ELEMENTS;

AGRONOMIC PRACTICES; BIOFORTIFICATION; MICRONUTRIENTS; PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING; PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING MICROBES; PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING RHIZOBACTERIA; PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS; SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION;

NUTRIENTS;

EID: 85035748712     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-5589-8_16     Document Type: Chapter

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