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Diversity of rhizobia nodulating wild shrubs of Sicily and some neighbouring islands.
Archives of microbiology - 1 Oct 2008
Cardinale Massimiliano, Lanza Angela, Bonnì Maria Laura, Marsala Salvatore, Puglia Anna Maria, Quatrini Paola
Abstract excerpt
Legume shrubs have great potential for rehabilitation of semi-arid degraded soils in Mediterranean ecosystems as they establish mutualistic symbiosis with N-fixing rhizobia. Eighty-eight symbiotic rhizobia were isolated from seven wild legume shrubs native of Sicily (Southern Italy) and grouped in operational taxonomic units (OTU) by analysis of the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) polymorphism....
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