Progress in Legume Inoculation
Description:
"The peculiar value of legumes for maintaing and increasing the fertility of soils is due to certain bacteria which develop nodules upon the roots of leguminous plants and which have the unique power of rendering the free nitrogen of the atmosphere available for plant growth. Without these bacteria, legumes, like other crops, exhaust the soil of its combined nitrogen. In many regions certain types of these important bacteria are abundant in the soil; in other localities they must be imported, e…
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Date:
1908
Creator:
Kellerman, Karl F. (Karl Frederic), 1879-1934 & Robinson, Theodore R.
Partner:
UNT Libraries Government Documents Department