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Effect of Nitrogen-fixing Blue-Green Algæ on the Growth of Rice Plants

Nature volume 168, pages 748–749 (1951)Cite this article

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THE fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by blue-green algæ has been reported by Pringsheim, Molisch, Drewes, Allison and Morris, De, Stokes, Bortels, Fogg, Burris and Wilson, Shioiri and Nishigaki et al.1; but no experiments on the effect of these algæ on the growth of rice plants have been performed.

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  1. Shioiri, M., Hatumi, Y., and Nishigaki, S., J. Sci. Soil and Manure (Japan), 18, 59 (1944).

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  5. Konishi, C., paper read at the twenty-second general meeting of the Society of Soil and Manure, Japan (1951).

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  1. Seizyo University and Iatrochemical Institute of Pharmacology, Research Foundation of Japan,

    A. WATANABE

  2. National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Tokyo

    S. NISHIGAKI

  3. Hokuriku Regional Agricultural Experiment Station, Niigata Pref., Japan

    C. KONISHI

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WATANABE, A., NISHIGAKI, S. & KONISHI, C. Effect of Nitrogen-fixing Blue-Green Algæ on the Growth of Rice Plants. Nature 168, 748–749 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168748b0

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