Isolation and Characterization of a Drought-Tolerant Cyanobacterium, Nostoc sp. HK-01

Microbes and Environments

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 82-88

  Katoh, Hiroshi ^a   Shiga, Yoko ^a   Nakahira, Yuka ^a   Ohmori, Masayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

cyanobacterium; drought tolerance; hormogonia; Nostoc

Indexed keywords

EID: 1942536794     PISSN: 13426311     EISSN: 13474405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1264/jsme2.18.82     Document Type: Article

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