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  <name type="personal">
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    <publisher>Nova Science Publishers</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2009</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>Biological importance of phosphorus and phosphate solubilizing microbes: an overview -- Novel approaches for analysis of biodiversity of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria -- Effects of phosphate-solubilizing microorganism on soil phosphorus fractions -- Role of plant growth promoting microorganisms for sustainable crop production -- Genetic and functional diversity of phosphate solubilizing fluorescent pseudomonads and their simultaneous role in promotion of plant growth and soil health -- Practical use of phosphate solubilizing soil microorganisms -- Phosphate-solubilization by psychrophilic and psychrotolerant microorganisms: an asset for sustainable agriculture at low temperatures -- Beneficial microbes in sustainable tropical crop production -- Molecular genetics of phosphate solubilization in rhizosphere bacteria and its role in plant growth promotion -- Strategies for development of microphos and mechanisms of phosphate-solubilization -- Variation in plant growth promoting activities of phosphate-solubilizing microbes and factors affecting their colonization and solubilizing efficiency in different agro-ecosystems -- Management of plant diseases using phosphate-solubilizing microbes -- Phosphate solubilizing microbes: potentials and success in greenhouse and field applications -- Genetic and phenotypic characterization of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria and their effects on growth and symbiotic properties of alfalfa plants -- Microbial facilitation of phosphorus nutrition in sugarcane -- Phosphate solubilizing microorganisms for augmenting crop nutrition -- Phosphate solubilizing microorganisms: prospects, promises and problems -- Genetic manipulations of metal accumulation and heavy metal tolerance: improving plants for environmental remediation -- Biological control of plant nematodes with phosphate-solubilizing microorganisms.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Mohammad Saghir Khan and Almas Zaidi, editors.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <note>Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.</note>
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    <topic>Soil microbiology</topic>
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    <topic>Phosphates</topic>
    <topic>Solubility</topic>
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    <topic>Crop improvement</topic>
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