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Different species of plants growing under the same climatic and soil conditions can have strongly differentiated rhizosphere nitrogen fixation rates. The cause of these differentiations in nitrogen fixation activity among plant species is probably the spcific composition of root exudates. Rovira (1956) showed that there are considerable quantitative and qualitative differences in the components excreted by the roots of plants growing under identical conditions.
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Rovira A.D. (1956). Plant root excretions in relation to the rhizosphere effect, Plant and Soil 7, 178 - 194
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Sawicka, A. (1991). The Influence of Root Exudates on Dinitrogen Fixation of Chosen Free-Living Bacteria. In: Polsinelli, M., Materassi, R., Vincenzini, M. (eds) Nitrogen Fixation. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3486-6_12
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