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Present address:
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Vegetative parameter Treatment GRC1rif+str+ Control Treatment GRC1rif+str+ Control Treatment GRC1rif+str+ Control
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Rhizobium inoculation with many legu- GRC1 is one of the potential PGPR with V. K. DESHWAL1
minous crops (mung bean, urd bean, pi- long-term residual effect. T. KUMAR2
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soybean, which increased the yield of the 2. Ayala, S. and Rao, E. V. S. P., Curr. 1
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uninoculated control. It is concluded that 4. Gupta, C. P., Sharma, A., Dubey, R. C.
Department of Botany and Microbiology,
not only Rhizobium, but Pseudomonas also and Maheshwari, D. K., Indian J. Exp. Gurukul Kangri University,
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