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ORIGINAL ARTICLE

Evaluation of the potential of trap plants to detect arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi using polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis

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Pages 205-211 | Received 14 May 2009, Accepted 11 Dec 2009, Published online: 21 Dec 2010

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