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Paper read to the Indian Academy of Sciences at the Annual Meeting at Belgaum in December 1954 at the Symposium entitled “Soil Micro-organisms and Plant Well-being.”
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Ramakrishnan, K. Some aspects of soil fungal ecology. Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 41, 110–116 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03050034
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