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Advances in Agriculture
Volume 2016, Article ID 4314958, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4314958
Research Article

Enhancing Growth of Vigna radiata in the Presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biopolymer and Metarhizium anisopliae Spores

Bhagwan N. Rekadwad, Chandrahasya N. Khobragade, Vishnu G. Jadhav, and Siddheswar U. Kadam

School of Life Sciences, Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded 431606, India

Received 26 July 2016; Revised 13 November 2016; Accepted 20 November 2016

Academic Editor: Tibor Janda

Copyright © 2016 Bhagwan N. Rekadwad et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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