Symbiotic nitrogen fixation and phosphorus acquisition. Plant nutrition in a world of declining renewable resources.

Since 1960, the world's population has doubled to 6 billion people. During the next 40 years, the population is projected to increase and stabilize at 8 to 9 billion people (Table [I][1]). In the 1960s, agricultural specialists predicted that food production would not keep pace with the burgeoning

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