Summary
Co-culture of two strains of the cyanobacterium Nostoc muscorum, separately resistant to the pesticide dithane or blitox, results in the appearence of doubly resistant mutants at a frequency some 100 times higher than when the strains are separately cultured. This strongly suggests the occurrence of a gene transfer mechanism for pesticide-resistance in this organism.
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Vaishampayan, A., Prasad, A.B. Inter-strain transfer of a pesticide-resistant marker in the N2-fixing cyanobacterium Nostoc muscorum . Molec. Gen. Genet. 193, 195–197 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327438
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00327438