Summary
Two U.V. induced mutants of nitrogen-fixing Anabaena doliolum have been isolated:
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5M 16 — This strain characterised as glucose-requiring nitrogen-fixing mutant, does not grow photo-autotrophically in the basal medium but does so when supplemented with glucose. Its growth rate is rather slow on AA-1, AA-3 and AA-4 but it grows very fast on AA-2.
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L Y-5M8/5M12 — This strain characterised on the basis of periodic occurrence of massive lytic property, characteristic of each supplemented medium, grows initially for some time and then the whole population undergoes lysis.
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Singh, R.N., Singh, H.N. Ultra-violet induced mutants of blue-green algae. Archiv. Mikrobiol. 48, 118–121 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00408452
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00408452