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In many soils, especially tropical lateritic soils, crop productivity is limited by low N and P availability. The growth of legumes can be improved substantially by the presence of both symbiotic N2-fixing bacteria and endomycorrhizal fungi. In most experiments with these microsymbionts, nodulated or mycorrhizal hosts are compared to N- or P-deficient controls. Many of the physiological differences between these plants are derived from nutritional differences. In this study non-symbiotic controls were given N and/or P fertilizer at rates designed to produce equal plant growth in all treatments.
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Pacovsky, R.S., Fuller, G. (1987). Lipids of Soybean Inoculated with Microsymbionts. In: Stumpf, P.K., Mudd, J.B., Nes, W.D. (eds) The Metabolism, Structure, and Function of Plant Lipids. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5263-1_63
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