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ISRN Agronomy
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 890280, 11 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/890280
Research Article

Bacterial and Yeast Endophytes from Poplar and Willow Promote Growth in Crop Plants and Grasses

Zareen Khan, Grant Guelich, Ha Phan, Regina Redman, and Sharon Doty

School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, College of the Environment, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-2100, USA

Received 27 April 2012; Accepted 22 July 2012

Academic Editors: A. D. Arencibia, M. Chodak, E. Perez-Artes, and S. Tsushima

Copyright © 2012 Zareen Khan 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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