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Previous studies on Azospirillum spp. (Day and Dobereiner, 1976) and Klebsiella oxytoca isolated from wheat roots in Turkey (Cakmacki et al., 1981) indicated little activity below 24°C and high activity at 30–40°C In this study the effect of temperature on the growth and acetylene reduction activity, (ARA) of two temperate-soil bacteria and a tropical-soil isolate is reported.
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Mwaura, F.B., Widdowson, D. (1998). Some physiological studies of diazotrophic bacteria associated with maize in a temperate and a tropical soil. In: Malik, K.A., Mirza, M.S., Ladha, J.K. (eds) Nitrogen Fixation with Non-Legumes. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 79. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5232-7_30
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