Isolation and characterization of a chlorate-resistant mutant (Clo-R) of the symbiotic cyanobacterium Nostoc ANTH: Heterocyst formation and N2-fixation in the presence of nitrate, and evidence for separate nitrate and nitrite transport systems

Current Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 99-104

  Bhattacharya, Jyotirmoy ^a   Singh, Arvind Kumar ^a   Rai, Amar Nath ^a  

^a NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIUM DERIVATIVE; CHLORATE; GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; NITRATE; NITRATE REDUCTASE; NITRITE; NITROGEN; FERTILIZER; NITRITE REDUCTASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NITROGEN FIXATION; NONHUMAN; NOSTOC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYMOLOGY; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NOSTOC; NOSTOC SP.;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHLORATES; CYANOBACTERIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FERTILIZERS; MUTATION; NITRATE REDUCTASES; NITRATES; NITRITE REDUCTASES; NITRITES; NITROGEN FIXATION;

EID: 0036691918     PISSN: 03438651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00284-001-0098-1     Document Type: Article

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