Marine diazotrophic cyanobacteria: Out of the blue

Plant Biotechnology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 221-225

  Díez, Beatriz ^a   Bergman, Birgitta ^a   El Shehawy, Rehab ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cyanobacteria; Diazocytes; Diazotrophs; Heterocystous; nifH gene

Indexed keywords

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 46849118817     PISSN: 13424580     EISSN: 13476114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5511/plantbiotechnology.25.221     Document Type: Review

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