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Nitrogen Fixation by Photosynthetic Microorganisms

Nitrogen Fixation by Photosynthetic Microorganisms Certain blue-green algae (Cyanophyceae) and photosynthetic bacteria (Thior­ hodaceae, Athiorhodaceae, and Chlorobacteriaceae) are unique in that they fix both STEWART CO2 and N2. This dual capacity is increasingly attracting the interests of physiolo­ gists and biochemists, so that even workers who thought primarily of isolated chloroplasts some years ago now often include these organisms in their studies. Ecologists are interested in their role in nitrogen-cycling, particularly in eutrophic waters and in nitrogen-poor environments. Morphologists are intrigued by the compartmentalization between carbon-fixing and N2-fixing sites, and agronomists have an interest in these organisms particularly in tropical agriculture. Such wide interests present problems in writing this review. Nevertheless there is a compensating, but in some respects unsatisfactory, feature, in that laboratory data are available for relatively few N2-fixing species. The organism of choice in about 80% of the laboratory studies on N2-fixation by blue-green algae (254, 255) is Anabaena cylindrica, an excellent physiological tool, but of little significance in nature. Data on N2-fixation are available for only a few strains of photosynthetic bacteria and we have had some problems even with these (103). Thus, much infor­ mation is available on a few organisms and despite the apparent morphological (218) and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annual Review of Microbiology Annual Reviews

Nitrogen Fixation by Photosynthetic Microorganisms

Annual Review of Microbiology , Volume 27 (1) – Oct 1, 1973

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Annual Reviews
Copyright
Copyright 1973 Annual Reviews. All rights reserved
Subject
Review Articles
ISSN
0066-4227
eISSN
1545-3251
DOI
10.1146/annurev.mi.27.100173.001435
pmid
4201690
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Abstract

Certain blue-green algae (Cyanophyceae) and photosynthetic bacteria (Thior­ hodaceae, Athiorhodaceae, and Chlorobacteriaceae) are unique in that they fix both STEWART CO2 and N2. This dual capacity is increasingly attracting the interests of physiolo­ gists and biochemists, so that even workers who thought primarily of isolated chloroplasts some years ago now often include these organisms in their studies. Ecologists are interested in their role in nitrogen-cycling, particularly in eutrophic waters and in nitrogen-poor environments. Morphologists are intrigued by the compartmentalization between carbon-fixing and N2-fixing sites, and agronomists have an interest in these organisms particularly in tropical agriculture. Such wide interests present problems in writing this review. Nevertheless there is a compensating, but in some respects unsatisfactory, feature, in that laboratory data are available for relatively few N2-fixing species. The organism of choice in about 80% of the laboratory studies on N2-fixation by blue-green algae (254, 255) is Anabaena cylindrica, an excellent physiological tool, but of little significance in nature. Data on N2-fixation are available for only a few strains of photosynthetic bacteria and we have had some problems even with these (103). Thus, much infor­ mation is available on a few organisms and despite the apparent morphological (218) and

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Annual Review of MicrobiologyAnnual Reviews

Published: Oct 1, 1973

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