Seeds of Phaseolus vulgaris bean carry R
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Néstor O Pérez-Ramı́rez; Marco A Rogel; Entao Wang; Javier Z Castellanos; Espera
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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The presence of soil bacteria on seeds could provide an explanation for bacterial geographical spread. We report that Phaseolus vulgaris bean seeds naturally carry rhizobia on their testa. One hundred eighteen Rhizobium isolates from L-3-1-1-1 seeds were characterized by multilocus enzyme electropho