Ethionine-resistant Mutants of the Filamentous Blue-green Alga Plectonema Boryanum

Overview

Journal J Bacteriol

Publisher American Society for Microbiology

Specialty Microbiology

Date 1978 Mar 1

PMID 417071

Citations 1

Authors

W M Hentschel

J L FARMER

W R Andersen

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Abstract

Plectonema boryanum mutants that are resistant to ethionine are unable to incorporate ethionine into acid-precipitable material. Ethionine causes bleaching of chlorophyll in sensitive cells.

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