Pigments and lipids of heterocysts

Planta - Tập 86 - Trang 92-97 - 1969
C. Peter Wolk1, Robert D. Simon1
1MSU/AEC Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing

Tóm tắt

Heterocysts of autotrophically grown Anabaena cylindrica contain about 77% as much chlorophyll as do vegetative cells, have little phycocyanin, and appear to lack myxoxanthophyll. Heterocysts have a photosystem I. Lipids of the two cell types differ.

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