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A quantitative model is proposed to describe the population dynamics of associative nitrogen-fixing microorganisms in the plant rhizosphere as dependent on the rate of carbon substrate exudation by plant roots. By changing the values of the basic model parameters, the effect of various factors on the behavior of two competing populations of rhizosphere microorganisms can be studied.
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Kravchenko, L.V., Strigul', N.S. & Shvytov, I.A. Mathematical Simulation of the Dynamics of Interacting Populations of Rhizosphere Microorganisms. Microbiology 73, 189–195 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MICI.0000023988.11064.43
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