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SUBMITTER: Picossi S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4091242 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Picossi Silvia S Flores Enrique E Ekman Martin M
Plant signaling & behavior 20131231 12
Certain cyanobacteria can form symbiotic associations with plants, where the symbiont supplies the plant partner with nitrogen and in return obtains sugars. We recently showed that in the symbiotic cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme, a glucose specific permease, GlcP, is necessary for the symbiosis to be formed. Results presented here from growth yield measurements of mutant strains with inactivated or overexpressing sugar transporters suggest that GlcP could be induced by a symbiosis specific su ...[more]