Calling from distance: attraction of soil bacteria by plant root volatiles

Kristin Schulz-Bohm1, Saskia Gerards2, Maria Hundscheid2

  • 1Department of Microbial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), 6700 AB, Wageningen, The Netherlands. K.Schulz-Bohm@nioo.knaw.nl.

The ISME Journal
|January 24, 2018
PubMed

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