Soil aggregate as a favorable habitat forBradyrhizobium japonicumstrains

Open Access

1 December 1988

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Vol. 34 (4) , 605-608
https://doi.org/10.1080/00380768.1988.10416475

Abstract

Rhizobial cells are present in soils as saprophytes after the decay of host plant nodules, and must survive in the soil until the next encounter with the infection sites of the host plant root. Biotic and abiotic environmental factors affect the population size of these rhizobia in the soil (Vincent 1977). Precise estimation of the population size of the native and the introduced rhizobia in the soil is necessary to study the conditions for the successful nodule formation by introduced strains.

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