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SUBMITTER: Stuart RK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7784912 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stuart Rhona K RK Pederson Eric R A ERA Weyman Philip D PD Weber Peter K PK Rassmussen Ulla U Dupont Christopher L CL
The ISME journal 20200819 12
In nitrogen-limited boreal forests, associations between feathermoss and diazotrophic cyanobacteria control nitrogen inputs and thus carbon cycling, but little is known about the molecular regulators required for initiation and maintenance of these associations. Specifically, a benefit to the cyanobacteria is not known, challenging whether the association is a nutritional mutualism. Targeted mutagenesis of the cyanobacterial alkane sulfonate monooxygenase results in an inability to colonize feat ...[more]