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http://dx.doi.org/10.7124/bc.0000AE
Short Communications
Nitrogen-fixing bacteria colonize rice root xylema
1Nguyen T. N. H., 2Ton T. N. B., 3Tarasenko V. A., 4Kozyrovskaja N. A.
  1. State University
    SRV, Hanoi
  2. Institute of Biology, NRC
    SRV, Hanoi
  3. N. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR
    Kiev, USSR
  4. Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR
    Kiev, USSR

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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