Establishment of a functional symbiosis between the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme and the bryophyte Anthoceros punctatus requires genes involved in nitrogen control and initiation of heterocyst differentiation

Microbiology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 315-323

  Wong, Francis C Y ^a   Meeks, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular differentiation; Cyanobacteria; Nitrogen control; Nitrogen fixation

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; NITROGEN; NITROGENASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIOLYSIS; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOBACTERIUM; GENE MUTATION; MOSS; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYMBIOSIS; WILD TYPE;

ANTHOCEROS; ANTHOCEROS PUNCTATUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BRYOPHYTA; BRYOPHYTES; CYANOBACTERIA; NEGIBACTERIA; NOSTOC; NOSTOC PUNCTIFORME; NOSTOC SP.; PTERIDOPHYTA;

EID: 0036148497     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/00221287-148-1-315     Document Type: Article

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