Nitrogen Fixation: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Nitrogen Fixation With Non-Legumes, Florence, Italy, 10-14 September 1990 (DEVELOPMENTS IN PLANT AND SOIL SCIENCES)

This volume collects 65 lectures and 87 posters, which comprise an up-to-date account of the state of knowledge on biological nitrogen fixation with non-legumes, addressing topics related to free living diazotrophs, root-associated diazotrophs, nitrogen-fixing photosynthentic microorganisms, and diazotrophic actinomycetes. Twenty-eight of the lecture-papers are reprinted from Plant and soil , v.137, no.1, 1991. For specialists in nitrogen fixation as well as researchers working on related aspects of agronomy, biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, molecular biology, and plant physiology. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

'.....but I recommend this book to anyone who wants to taste the excitement of a fascinating, if occasionally fanatical. ' Society for General Microbiology Quarterly nov. 1992
' The book provides a valuable reference source not only for specialists in nitrogen fixation, but also for researchers working on related aspects of agronomy, biochemistry, genetics, microbiology, molecular biology and plant physiology. ' Agrochimica 36:3 1992