Modeling culture profiles of the heterocystous N2-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena flos-aquae

Biotechnology Progress

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1532-1540

  Pinzon, Neissa M ^a   Ju, Lu Kwang ^a  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELLS; HYDROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION;

CYANOBACTERIUM ANABAENA; HETEROCYST DIFFERENTIATION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC GROWTH;

MICROORGANISMS;

NITRATE;

ANABAENA FLOS-AQUAE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOREACTOR; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION RESPONSE;

ANABAENA FLOS-AQUAE; BIOREACTORS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITRATES; NITROGEN FIXATION;

ANABAENA FLOS-AQUAE; ANABAENA FLOS-AQUAE CCAP 1403/13F; CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 33845511119     PISSN: 87567938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bp060163c     Document Type: Article

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