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Spore differentiation in relation to certain antibiotics in the blue‐green alga Nodularia spumigena MERTENS
Author(s) -
Pandey R. K.,
Talpasayi E. R. S.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
zeitschrift für allgemeine mikrobiologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.58
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1521-4028
pISSN - 0044-2208
DOI - 10.1002/jobm.19820220307
Subject(s) - chloramphenicol , spore , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , penicillin , sporogenesis , antibiotics , botany , ribosomal rna , streptomycin , genetics , gene
Induction of spore differentiation is achieved within three days in Nodularia spumigena by incubating the cultures at 35°C in the light. Morphologically detectable sporulation and spore germination could not occur in the presence of chloramphenicol, streptomycin and penicillin. But chloramphenicol‐supplemented cultures developed prominent cyanophycin granules. Synthesis of these granules seems to be a non‐ribosomal phenomenon.