African Journal of
Agricultural Research

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Agric. Res.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1991-637X
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJAR
  • Start Year: 2006
  • Published Articles: 6863

Full Length Research Paper

Vegetation cover affects rhizobia-tree legume symbiosis in the semi-arid region of Brazil

Luciana Remígio Santos Nascimento1, Ana Dolores Santiago de Freitas1, Vinicius Santos Gomes da Silva2*, Augusto Cesar de Arruda Santana1, Aleksandro Ferreira da Silva1, Carolina Etienne de Rosália e Silva Santos1, Juscélia da Silva Ferreira1, Leandro Reis Costa Santos1 and Jéssica Rafaella de Sousa Oliveira1  
1Department of Agronomy, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. 2Federal Institute of Pernambuco, Vitória de Santo Antão, Pernambuco, Brazil.  
Email: [email protected]

  •  Received: 15 November 2018
  •  Accepted: 11 February 2019
  •  Published: 25 April 2019

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