Isolation of nitrogen-fixing bacteria containing molybdenum-independent nitrogenases from natural environments.
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SUBMITTER: Loveless TM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC99764 | biostudies-literature | 1999 Sep
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Isolation of nitrogen-fixing bacteria containing molybdenum-independent nitrogenases from natural environments.
Loveless T M TM Saah J R JR Bishop P E PE
Applied and environmental microbiology 19990901 9
Seven diazotrophs that grow well under Mo-deficient, N(2)-fixing conditions were isolated from a variety of environments. These isolates fall in the gamma subdivision of the class Proteobacteria and have genes that encode the Mo nitrogenase (nitrogenase 1) and the V nitrogenase (nitrogenase 2). Four of the isolates also harbor genes that encode the iron-only nitrogenase (nitrogenase 3). ...[more]
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