In addition to forming symbiotic nodules on legumes, rhizobial strains are members of soil or rhizosphere communities or occur as endophytes, e.g., in rice. Two rhizobial strains which have been isolated from root nodules of the aquatic legumes Aeschynomene fluminensis (IRBG271) and Sesbania aculeata (IRBG74) were previously found to promote rice growth. In addition to analyzing their phylogene...

Much of Africa is among the world’s regions with lowest yields in staple food crops, and climate change is expected to make it more difficult to catch up in crop production in particular in the long run. Various agronomic measures have been proposed for lifting agricultural production in Africa and to adapt it to climate change. Here, we present a projection of potential climate change impacts ...

Sesbania sesban (L.) Merr. Syn.-S. aegyptiaca Pers. (Hindi-Jaint, Jayanti; Englishcommon sesban, Aegyptian Rattle pod) belonging to family-leguminoceae, is a soft wooded, fast growing, short lived shrub,1.8-6 m. high found cultivated throughout the plains of India up to an altitude of 1200 m. and has been reported by Saha[17] et al., 1961; Chaudhury[5], 1966 and Malhi & Trivedi[11], 1972. Bhadu...