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Azorhizobium caulinodans is considered a highly promising microbe because of its ability to fix nitrogen in the free-living state as well as in symbiosis. Most of the estimates made for N2 -fixation by Azorhizobium—rice associations are based on acetylene-reduction assay, a method that has been questioned for accuracy in absolute measurements. The present work aimed at finding the effecitveness of this microorganism to increase N-content in four Pakistani cultivars of rice by comparing total nitrogen per plant.
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Khokhar, S.N., Qureshi, A. (1998). Interaction of Azorhizobium caulinodans with different rice cultivars for increased N2 -fixation. 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_10
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