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Biological crust of Nostoc flagelliforme (cyanobacteria) on sand bed materials

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Nostoc flagelliforme in liquid culture was cultivated on sand bed materials as inoculum and formed a biological crust. The biological crust had no common appearance of wild N. flagelliforme thallus in naked eye observation, but it had natural morphology of wild N. flagelliforme thallus in microscopic observation. By examining the photosynthetic activity, N. flagelliforme cells on sand were found to be heat resistant. The sand grain size had some influence on N. flagelliforme growth, and the growth rate on fine sand was higher than on coarse sand. It is necessary to consider the characteristics of sand particle size to prevent desertification. N. flagelliforme cells could form the algal biological crust, which indicates that the biological crust has potential application in soil desertification and was extremely important to improve desertification.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 20376061 and no. 20776112) and the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program, no. 2007CB714305).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Industrial Microbiology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin, 300457, People’s Republic of China

    XueFeng Chen & ShiRu Jia

  2. College of Life Science and Engineering, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, 710021, People’s Republic of China

    XueFeng Chen, Yue Wang & Ning Wang

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Chen, X., Jia, S., Wang, Y. et al. Biological crust of Nostoc flagelliforme (cyanobacteria) on sand bed materials. J Appl Phycol 23, 67–71 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-010-9538-2

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