2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Mechanisms and evolution of cyanobacterial symbiosis with non-specific host plants
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21770098
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Biodiversity/Systematics
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| Research Institution | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
TOMITANI Akiko Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 海洋・極限環境生物圏領域, 研究員 (60392940)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2010
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| Keywords | 進化 / 植物 / シアノバクテリア / 共生 |
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| Research Abstract |
Infection assays were carried out using Nostoc culture strains of both free-living and symbiotic origins in order to examine host-symbiont (non-)specifity in the association between diazotrophic cyanobacteria and plants. Molecular phylogenetic, physiological and developmental analyses of the Nostoc species were integrated to discuss evolutionary process of diversity and specifity of plant hosts for cyanobionts.
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