NODULATION OF AFRICAN-YAM-BEAN (SPHENOSTYLIS-STENOCARPA) BY BRADYRHIZOBIUM SP ISOLATED FROM ERYTHRINA-BRUCEI

Authors
ASSEFA F KLEINER D
Citation
F. Assefa et D. Kleiner, NODULATION OF AFRICAN-YAM-BEAN (SPHENOSTYLIS-STENOCARPA) BY BRADYRHIZOBIUM SP ISOLATED FROM ERYTHRINA-BRUCEI, Biology and fertility of soils, 25(2), 1997, pp. 209-210
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Agriculture Soil Science
Journal title
Biology and fertility of soils → ACNP
ISSN journal
01782762
Volume
25
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
209 - 210
Database
ISI
SICI code
0178-2762(1997)25:2<209:NOA(BB>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
African yam bean (Sphenostylis stenocarpa), which is widely cultivated in Africa because of its growth capability on marginal soils, was nod ulated by an endosymbiont (characterized and designed Bradyrhizobium s p. AUEB20) isolated from the Ethiopian tree Erythrina brucei with the formation of a small number of large, indeterminate N-2-fixing nodules . In contrast, 24 other isolates from Ethiopian woody legumes were ine ffective, Strain AUEB20 promiscuously nodulated a number of tropical l egumes, but none out of five European crop plants tested.