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Peanuts thrive on fungi
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Peanuts thrive on fungi
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Improvements are on the way for Mozambique s important groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) crops which have suffered from periods of drought in recent years. Orlando Quilambo, biologist and scientific research director at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, has discovered a local small-grained variety with better productivity in dry conditions. Just as inoculation with rhizobium increases nitrogen fixation, he confirms that inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increases the variety s tolerance for drought. Email: quilambo@zebra.uem.mz Improvements are on the way for Mozambique s important groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) crops which have suffered from periods of drought in recent years. Orlando Quilambo, biologist and scientific research director at the Eduardo Mondlane University... |
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2014-10-16T09:06:01Z
2014-10-16T09:06:01Z 2001 |
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News Item
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CTA. 2001. Peanuts thrive on fungi. Spore 95. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46288 |
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en
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Spore;95
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CTA
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Spore
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