Aerobic nitrogen fixation is confined to a subset of cells in the non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Symploca PCC 8002

New Phytologist

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 531-538

  Fredriksson, Charlotta ^a   Malin, Gillian ^b   Siddiqui, Pirzada J A ^c   Bergman, Birgitta ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI   (Pakistan)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acetylene reduction; Immunolocalization; Kutzing (Microcoleus chthonoplastes Thuret); Nitrogenase; Non heterocystous cyanobacteria; Symploca PCC 8002

Indexed keywords

SYMPLOCA;

EID: 0031758964     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-8137.1998.00284.x     Document Type: Article

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