Upon growth on dinitrogen, the filamentous cyanobacterium Nostoc PCC 7120 initiates metabolic and morphological changes. We analyzed the expression of 1249 genes from major metabolic categories under nitrogen fixing and non-nitrogen fixing growth. The expression data were correlated with potential target secondary structures, probe GC-content, predicted operon structures, and nitrogen content o...

The construction of an integrative shuttle expression vector and potential utility was reported in Escherichia coli and Anabaena (Nostoc) sp. strain PCC 7120. The vector comprised of the following elements: (a) an intergenic non-coding region from Anabaena to facilitate its genomic integration (b) a strong functional PpsbAI promoter from Anabaena for desired gene expression and (c) neomycin pho...

Organic farming/products are becoming very necessary in today’s world to control ecosystem health and to impart related human health benefits, world over there is growing demand for organic produce. A field experiment was conducted at the research farm of Kilpest India Ltd., Bhopal, during 2009 on rice using BGA Chlorella pyrenoidosa and Nostoc muscorum and biological hydrolysate of Soybean .Th...

1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Tarbiat Moallem University, Tehran, Iran. 2 Department of Biology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. 3 Department of Applied Chemistry and Microbiology, University of Helsinki, P. O. Box 56, Viikki Biocenter, Viikinkaari 9, FIN-00014 Helsinki, Finland. 4 Department of Biotechnology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medi...

It is shown experimentally that in the solutions of heat-sensitive polymers being in gradient temperature fields, regular self-oscillations may occur. Theoretical interpretation of the observed phenomena is given. The prospects of using data of detected waves in solar power engineering are discussed.

The filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena (Nostoc) sp. strain PCC 7120 responds to starvation for fixed nitrogen by producing a semiregular pattern of nitrogen-fixing cells called heterocysts. Overexpression of the hetY gene partially suppressed heterocyst formation, resulting in an abnormal heterocyst pattern. Inactivation of hetY increased the time required for heterocyst maturation and caused ...

BACKGROUND The cyanobacterial genus Nostoc includes several species forming centimetre-large gelatinous colonies in nutrient-poor freshwaters and harsh semi-terrestrial environments with extended drought or freezing. These Nostoc species have filaments with normal photosynthetic cells and N2-fixing heterocysts embedded in an extensive gelatinous matrix of polysaccharides and many other organic ...