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. 1989 Feb;55(2):520–522. doi: 10.1128/aem.55.2.520-522.1989

Rhizobium Strain Identification and Quantification in Commercial Inoculants by Immunoblot Analysis †

Perry E Olsen 1, Wendell A Rice 1,*
PMCID: PMC184145  PMID: 16347860

Abstract

An immunoblot procedure for the strain-specific quantitative analysis of commercial Rhizobium inoculants was developed. The technique greatly reduced the time required for inoculant analysis. Correlation between immunoblot analysis and traditional plant nodule grow-out most-probable-number techniques was r = 0.90 for 16 commercial alfalfa inoculants tested.

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