Abstract
ABSTRACT Recent work, particularly that of De (1939), has shown that some blue-green algae are capable of utilizing the free nitrogen of the atmosphere in the synthesis of cell material. Much further work will be necessary, however, before the importance of nitrogen fixation by these organisms in nature can be estimated, our knowledge both of the distribution of the property within the group of the Myxophyceae and of the physiology of the process being very vague.
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Blue green algaeNitrogen fixationAlgaeNitrogenFixation (population genetics)BiologyBotanyEnvironmental scienceChemistryCyanobacteriaBiochemistryOrganic chemistryPaleontologyBacteria
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- 1942
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- 19
- Issue
- 1
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- 78-87
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- 105
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G. E. Fogg
(1942).
Studies on Nitrogen Fixation by Blue-Green Algae.
Journal of Experimental Biology
, 19
(1)
, 78-87.
https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.19.1.78
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- DOI
- 10.1242/jeb.19.1.78