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In cereal-legume crop rotation system, better Rhizobium symbiosis was obtained by double inoculation,i.e., when the preceeding cereal crop of maize was also inoculated with the same Rhizobium strain, used to inoculate the following legume crop of green gram or groundnut.
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Gaur, Y.D., Sen, A.N. & Rao, N.S.S. Improved legume-rhizobium symbiosis by inoculating preceding cereal crop with rhizobium. Plant Soil 54, 313–316 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02181857
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