Cellular responses in the cyanobacterial symbiont during its vertical transfer between plant generations in the Azolla microphylla symbiosis

New Phytologist

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-61

  Zheng, Weiwen ^a,b   Bergman, Birgitta ^c   Chen, Bin ^b   Zheng, Siping ^b   Xiang, Guan ^a   Rasmussen, Ulla ^c  

^a FUJIAN AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Akinete; Azolla; Biofilm; Cell differentiation; Cyanobacteria; Membrane vesicle

Indexed keywords

BIOFILM; COLONIZATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; CYTOPLASM; FERN; FRAGMENTATION; NITROGEN FIXATION; SPORE; SYMBIOSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYANOBACTERIUM; FERN; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIOFILMS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MEMBRANE STRUCTURES; CYANOBACTERIA; FERNS; NITROGEN FIXATION; REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS;

AZOLLA; AZOLLA FILICULOIDES; AZOLLA MICROPHYLLA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; FILICOPHYTA; HYDROPTERIDALES;

EID: 57449111763     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02644.x     Document Type: Article

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