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Modification and field testing of a portable gas chromatograph forin situ acetylene reduction activity assay of tropical soils

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Small modifications of the Mallard/Holfeld/LaRue GC allow indirect measurement of biological N2-fixation in tropical soils even in remote locations. Examples of ARA from Philippine rice fields are given.

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  1. I. F. Grant

    Present address: Tropical Development and Research Institute, College House, Wrights Lane, W8 5SJ, London, England

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  1. Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA

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Grant, I.F. Modification and field testing of a portable gas chromatograph forin situ acetylene reduction activity assay of tropical soils. Plant Soil 95, 435–439 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02374624

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