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MODERATELY high temperatures have been found to exert a specific inhibitory effect on symbiotic nitrogen fixation. The results of an experiment illustrating this effect are given in Table 1.
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MEYER, D., ANDERSON, A. Temperature and Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation. Nature 183, 61 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183061a0
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