Metabolic adaptation, a specialized leaf organ structure and vascular responses to diurnal N2 fixation by nostoc azollae sustain the astonishing productivity of azolla ferns without nitrogen fertilizer

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Brouwer, Paul ^a   Bräutigam, Andrea ^b,e   Buijs, Valerie A ^a   Tazelaar, Anne O E ^a   van der Werf, Adrie ^c   Schlüter, Urte ^b   Reichart, Gert Jan ^a   Bolger, Anthony ^d   Usadel, Björn ^d   Weber, Andreas P M ^b   Schluepmann, Henriette ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PLANT GENETICS AND CROP PLANT RESEARCH IPK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aquatic ferns; Azolla nostoc azollae symbiosis; Clock evolution; Diel cycling; Dinitrogen fixation; Heterocystous cyanobacteria; Rna seq; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017320065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2017.00442     Document Type: Article

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