Nitrogen stress induced changes in the marine cyanobacterium Oscillatoria willei BDU 130511

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 263-272

  Saha, Sushanta Kumar ^a   Uma, Lakshmanan ^a   Subramanian, Gopalakrishnan ^a  

^a BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Active oxygen species; Cyanobacterium; Hydrogen peroxide; Limitation; Nitrogen; Oscillatoria willei; Oxidative stress; Peroxidase; Starvation; Superoxide dismutase

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; ISOENZYME; NITROGEN; PEROXIDASE; PIGMENT; POLYPEPTIDE; RIBULOSEBISPHOSPHATE CARBOXYLASE; SODIUM NITRATE; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

CYANOBACTERIUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; STRESS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYANOBACTERIUM; ECOLOGY; FATTY ACID SYNTHESIS; LIPOGENESIS; NITROGEN DEFICIENCY; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATORIA WILLEI; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STARVATION; STRESS; SURVIVAL;

CYANOBACTERIA; OSCILLATORIA; OSCILLATORIA WILLEI;

EID: 0043065361     PISSN: 01686496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-6496(03)00162-4     Document Type: Article

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