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A Nostoc punctiforme sugar transporter necessary to establish a Cyanobacterium-plant symbiosis.
Plant physiology - 1 Apr 2013
Ekman Martin, Picossi Silvia, Campbell Elsie L, Meeks John C, Flores Enrique
Abstract excerpt
In cyanobacteria-plant symbioses, the symbiotic nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium has low photosynthetic activity and is supplemented by sugars provided by the plant partner. Which sugars and cyanobacterial sugar uptake mechanism(s) are involved in the symbiosis, however, is unknown. Mutants of the symbiotically competent, facultatively heterotrophic cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme were constructed bearing a...
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