Symbiosis between nitrogen - Fixing cyanobacteria and plants: The establishments of symbiosis causes dramatic morphological and physiological changes in the cyanobacterium

BioScience

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 266-276

  Meeks, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 0031957137     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313353     Document Type: Review

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