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In the past decades, bacteria have frequently been introduced into the soil for commercial reasons such as pest control, pollution abatement (e.g., degradation of xenobiotics) and frost protection of crops. Furthermore successes in crop production with N2-fixing bacteria have been reported.1
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Schneidereit, H., Schmidt, F.R.J. (1990). The use of a Sesbania rostrata microcosm for studying gene transfer among microorganisms. In: Fry, J.C., Day, M.J. (eds) Bacterial Genetics in Natural Environments. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1834-4_13
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