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Bacterial diversity in agroecosystems
1999-06-01
Abstract excerpt
All life forms rely on bacterial processes for their survival. Bacterial diversity is greater than the diversity of any other group of organisms. Bacteria are responsible for diverse metabolic functions that affect soil and plant health. Nutrient cycling, organic matter formation and decomposition, soil structure formation, and plant growth promotion are among the beneficial functions that bacteria perform. Delete...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4e191790-d595-5f9c-bd83-dd43b82668ce
- DOI
- 10.1016/s0167-8809(99)00030-4
