Sustainable farming of horticultural plants has been the focus of research during the last
decade, paying significant attention to alarming weather extremities and climate change, as …

Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) has become a cosmopolitan crop, but was originally
domesticated in the Americas and has been grown in Latin America for several thousand …

Many of the microbial inoculants all over the world are based on solid peat formulations.
This has been mostly true for well developed legume inoculants based on selected rhizobial …

The effects of salt upon Azospirillum brasilense strain Cd on plant growth, nodulation,
flavonoid and lipochitooligosaccharide (LCOs-Nod factor) production, were sequentially …

Common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) comprise three major geographic genetic pools, one
in Mexico, Central America, and Colombia, another in the southern Andes, and a third in …

Nitrogen (N2) fixation is one of the most important biological processes on earth, with a
commonly accepted estimate for global N2 fixation of 175 million metric tons (Tg) annually …

Thirty nodule isolates from bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) grown in Eskişehir were studied for
their physiological and biochemical characteristics. Most isolates produced abundant …

Edaphic factors constrain bean production in most areas where this crop is grown. They
include nutrient constraints particularly N and P deficiency, soil acidity including Al and …

Pakistan is among top three chickpea producing countries but the crop is usually grown on
marginal lands without irrigation and fertilizer application which significantly hampers its …

Common bean is a poor symbiotic N-fixer, with a low response to inoculation owing to its
promiscuous nodulation with competitive but inefficient resident rhizobia. Consequently …