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Nucleic Acids and Proteins in Soil

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    Lars R. Bakken

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  2. Åsa Frostegård
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  1. Dipartimento della Scienza del Suolo e Nutrizione della Pianta, P.le delle Cascine 28, 50144, Firenze, Italy

    Paolo Nannipieri

  2. Institut für Pflanzenvirologie, Mikrobiologie und biologische Sicherheit, Biologische Bundesanstalt für Land- und Forstwirtschaft (BBA), Messeweg 11/12, 38104, Braunschweig, Germany

    Kornelia Smalla

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Bakken, L.R., Frostegård, Å. (2006). Nucleic Acid Extraction from Soil. In: Nannipieri, P., Smalla, K. (eds) Nucleic Acids and Proteins in Soil. Soil Biology, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-29449-X_3

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