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Beneficial Plant-Bacterial Interactions

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To grow, both plants and bacteria utilize nutrients that are mainly acquired from the soil environment. In addition to small amounts of a number of different metals, plants and bacteria require fixed nitrogen, iron, and phosphorus. In this chapter, the mechanisms and genes involved in PGPB and plant resource acquisition are discussed in some detail. In fact, one of the major benefits that PGPB provide to their plant partners is that they facilitate the plant’s acquisition of resources from the soil.

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    Bernard R. Glick

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Glick, B.R. (2015). Resource Acquisition. In: Beneficial Plant-Bacterial Interactions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13921-0_2

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