Nitrogen-fixing bacteria colonize rice root xylema

Authors

  • T. N. H. Nguyen State University SRV, Hanoi Author
  • T. N. B. Ton Institute of Biology, NRC SRV, Hanoi Author
  • V. A. Tarasenko N. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR Kiev, USSR Author
  • N. A. Kozyrovskaja Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR Kiev, USSR Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7124/bc.0000AE

Abstract

Bacteria possessing low nitrogen-fixing activity have been isolated from the rice histoplane, their localization into rice roots xylema being shown.

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Published

1989-03-20

Issue

Section

Short Communications