The role of cyanobacterial exopolysaccharides in structuring desert microbial crusts

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 121-130

  Mazor, Gideon ^a   Kidron, Giora J ^a   Vonshak, Ahuva ^a   Abeliovich, Aharon ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Exopolysaccharides; Microbial crust; Microcoleus

Indexed keywords

POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; DESERT CLIMATE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; MICROCOLEUS; MICROCOLEUS SP.;

CYANOBACTERIA; DESERT; EXOPOLYSACCHARIDE; MICROBIAL CRUST;

ISRAEL, NEGEV DESERT;

EID: 0030251302     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-6496(96)00050-5     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. [1] De Winder, B. (1990) Ecophysiological strategies of drought tolerant phototrophic micro-organisms in dune soil. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2. [2] Starks, T.S., Shubert, L.E. and Trainor, F.R. (1981) Ecology of soil algae: a review. Phycologia 20, 65-80.
3. [3] Campbell, S.E. (1979) Soil stabilization by a prokaryotic desert crust: implications for precambrian land biota. Origins of Life 9, 335-348.
4. [4] Belnap, J. and Gardner, J.S. (1993) Soil microstructure in soils of the Colorado plateau: The role of the cyanobacterium Microcoleus vaginatus. Great Basin Naturalist 53, 40-47.
5. [5] Danin, A., Bar-Or, Y., Dor, I. and Israeli, T. (1989) The role of Cyanobacteria in stabilization of sand dunes in southern Israel. Ecologia Mediterranea 15, 55-64.
6. [6] Lange, G.J., Kidron, B., Budel, A., Meyer, E., Kilian, E. and Abeliovich, A. (1992) Taxonomic composition and photosynthetic characteristics of the 'biological soil crusts' covering sand dunes in the western Negev Desert. Funct. Ecol. 6, 519-527.
7. [7] Van den Ancker, J.A.M., Jungerius, P.D. and Mur, L.R. (1985) The role of algae in the stabilization of coastal dune blowouts. Earth Surface Process. Landforms 10, 189-192.
8. [8] Fattom, A. and Shilo, M. (1984) Hydrophobicity as an adhesion mechanism of benthic cyanobacteria. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 47, 135-143.
9. [9] Lange, W. (1976) Speculations on a possible essential function of the gelatinous sheath of blue-green algae. Can. J. Microbiol. 22, 1181-1185.
10. [10] Costerton, J.W., Marrie, T.J. and Cheng, K.-J. (1985) Phenomena of bacterial adhesion. In: Bacterial Adhesion (Savage, D.W. and Fletcher, M., Eds.), pp. 3-43. Plenum Press, New York.
11. [11] Stotzky, G. (1985) Mechanisms of adhesion to clays, with reference to soil systems. In: Bacterial Adhesion (Savage, D.W. and Fletcher, M., Eds.), pp. 195-253. Plenum Press, New York.
12. [12] Shilo, M. (1989) The unique characteristics of benthic cyanobacteria. In: Microbial Mats (Cohen, Y. and Rosenberg, E., Eds.), pp. 207-213. American Society for Microbiology, Washington, D.C.
13. [13] Rippka, R. (1988) Isolation and purification of cyanobacteria. In: Methods in Enzymology (Packer, L. and Glazer, A.N., Eds.), pp. 3-27. Vol. 167, Academic Press, New York.
14. [14] CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics (1981) Weast, R.C. and Astle, M.J. (Eds.) CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
15. [15] Vollenweider, R.A. (1969) A Manual on Methods for Measuring Primary Production in Aquatic Environments. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.
16. [16] Lowry, O.H., Rosebrough, N.J., Fair, A.L. and Randall, R.J. (1951) Protein measurement with the folin phenol reagent. J. Biol. Chem. 193, 265-275.
17. [17] Chaplin, M.F. (1986) Monosaccharides. In: Carbohydrate Analysis, A Practical Approach (Chaplin, M.F. and Kennedy, J.F., Eds.), IRL Press, UK.
18. [18] Hassid, W.Z. and Abraham, S. (1957) Chemical Procedures for Analysis of Polysaccharides. In: Methods in Enzymology (Colowick, S.P. and Kaplan, N.O., Eds.), pp. 34-50, Vol. III, Academic Press. New York.
19. [19] Panoff, J.M., Priem, B., Morvan, H. and Joset, F. (1988) Sulfated exopolysaccharides produced by two unicellular strains of cyanobacteria, Synechocystis PCC 6801 and 6714. Arch. Microbiol. 150, 558-563.
20. [20] Thin Layer Chromatography (1969) 2nd Edition, Stahl, E. (Ed.) George Allen and Unwin Ltd., London.
21. [21] Stal, L.J. (1988) Nitrogen fixation in cyanobacterial mats. In: Methods in Enzymology (Packer, L. and Glazer, A.N., Eds.), pp. 474-477, Vol. 167. Academic Press, New York.
22. [22] Yair, A. (1990) Runoff generation in a sandy area - The Nizzana Sands, western Negev, Israel. Earth Surface Processes Landforms 15, 1-13.
23. [23] Bertocchi, C., Navarini, L. and Attilio, C. (1990) Polysaccharides from cyanobacteria. Carbohydr. Polym. 12, 127-153.
24. [24] Lange, O.L., Meyer, A. and Büdel, B. (1994) Net photosynthesis activation of a desiccated cyanobacterium without liquid water in high air humidity alone. Experiments with Microcoleus sociatus isolated from a desert soil crust. Funct. Ecol. 8, 52-57.
25. [25] Verrecchia, E., Yair, A., Kidron, G.J. and Verrecchia, K. (1995) Physical properties of the psammophile cryptogamic crust and their consequences to the water regime of sandy soils, north-western Negev Desert, Israel. J. Arid Environ. 29, 427-437.
26. [26] Roberson, E.B. and Firestone, M.K. (1992) Relationship between desiccation and exopolysaccharide production in a soil Pseudomonas sp. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 58, 1284-1291.
27. [27] Kidron, G.J., Vonshak, A. and Abeliovich, A. (1995) Five microbiotic crust types in the Nizzana Dune field: factors affecting their variability and measurements of their regeneration time, Israel Geolog. Soc., Ann. Meeting Abstracts, 1995, p. 62.