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Ammonium tolerance in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 and the role of the psbA multigene family.
Plant, cell & environment - 1 Apr 2014
Dai Guo-Zheng, Qiu Bao-Sheng, Forchhammer Karl
Abstract excerpt
Ammonium is one of the major nutrients for plants, and a ubiquitous intermediate in plant metabolism, but it is also known to be toxic to many organisms, in particular to plants and oxygenic photosynthetic microorganisms. Although previous studies revealed a link between ammonium toxicity and photodamage in cyanobacteria under in vivo conditions, ammonium-induced photodamage of photosystem II (PSII) has not yet...
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