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Morphological and genetic diversity of symbiotic cyanobacteria from cycads.
Journal of basic microbiology - 1 Jun 2010
Thajuddin Nooruddin, Muralitharan Gangatharan, Sundaramoorthy Mariappan, Ramamoorthy Rengasamy, Ramachandran Srinivasan, Akbarsha Mohamed Abdulkadar, Gunasekaran Muthukumaran
Abstract excerpt
The morphological and genetic diversity of cyanobacteria associated with cycads was examined using PCR amplification techniques and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. Eighteen symbiotic cyanobacteria were isolated from different cycad species. One of the symbiotic isolates was a species of Calothrix, a genus not previously reported to form symbioses with Cycadaceae family, and the remainder were Nostoc spp. Axenic...
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