Are microbes at the root of a solution to world food production?

EMBO Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 922-926

  Morrissey, John P ^a   Dow, J Maxwell ^a   Mark, G Louise ^a   O'Gara, Fergal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CROP IMPROVEMENT; CROP PRODUCTION; GENETICALLY MODIFIED CROP; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT FUNGUS INTERACTION; PLANT MICROORGANISM INTERACTION; PLANT PATHOGEN INTERACTION; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; URBANIZATION;

AGRICULTURE; BACTERIA; GENOMICS; PLANTS; PROTEOMICS; SYMBIOSIS;

FUNGI;

EID: 8844259570     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400263     Document Type: Review

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