Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful GardeningEmploys a dictionary format to furnish information on the characteristics and uses of plants that promote the growth of other varieties, offering descriptions of helpful weeds and insect-repellent plants. |
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... roots live nitrogen - fixing bacteria , which are able to combine nitrogen with sugars to form proteins . In the legumes these bacteria live on the roots in small swellings called nodules . Clover , or some other legume , may be plowed ...
... roots live nitrogen - fixing bacteria , which are able to combine nitrogen with sugars to form proteins . In the legumes these bacteria live on the roots in small swellings called nodules . Clover , or some other legume , may be plowed ...
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... roots differ in certain structural features from uninfected roots , often being short and thick and commonly lacking root caps and root hairs . Sometimes they do not branch . The physiological and biological significance of these fungi ...
... roots differ in certain structural features from uninfected roots , often being short and thick and commonly lacking root caps and root hairs . Sometimes they do not branch . The physiological and biological significance of these fungi ...
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... Root Exudates . Roots of many crop and pasture plants have been found to excrete a vast variety of substances such as amino acids , vitamins , sugars , tannins , alkaloids , phosphates and many other unidentified substances . These have ...
... Root Exudates . Roots of many crop and pasture plants have been found to excrete a vast variety of substances such as amino acids , vitamins , sugars , tannins , alkaloids , phosphates and many other unidentified substances . These have ...
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