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An Improved Chemotaxis Assay for the Rapid Identification of Rhizobacterial Chemoattractants in Root Exudates
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Chemotaxis of Rhizobium spp. to Plant Root Exudates

W W Currier1, G A Strobel

  • 1Department of Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59715.

Plant Physiology
|May 1, 1976
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