[APD] Re: BGA, N2 gas and heterocyst

["Daniel Larsson" <defdac at hotmail_com>]

I wrote:
>> The single most effecive sellingpoint, to me, for using KNO3
>> against Cyanobacteria/BGA is "heterocysts":
>> http://www.answers.com/topic/heterocyst

Tom Barr wrote:
>Well, that does not apply to Oscillitoria.
>They don't form heterocyst, no heterocyst with this group=> no N2 gas
fixing.

It is true Osciallatoria does not form heterocysts, but they can still fix
N2?:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=1257749&dopt=Abstract



//Daniel.
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