Isolation and molecular identification of endophytic diazotrophs from seeds and stems of three cereal crops.

Ten strains of endophytic diazotroph were isolated and identified from the plants collected from three different agricultural crop species, wheat, rice and maize, using the nitrogen-free selective isolation conditions. The nitrogen-fixing ability of endophytic diazotroph was verified by the nifH-PCR...

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Main Authors: Huawei Liu, Lei Zhang, Aihua Meng, Junbiao Zhang, Miaomiao Xie, Yaohong Qin, Dylan Chase Faulk, Baohong Zhang, Shushen Yang, Li Qiu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5662235?pdf=render