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Ultrastructural Plasticity of Cyanobacteria in Natural Symbioses with Plants

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Ultrastructural Plasticity of Cyanobacteria

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This chapter is dedicated to investigation of ultrastructural plasticity cyanobacteria in natural symbioses with liverwort Blasia pusilla and several species of cycad plants. According to the result presented therein, morphological and structural features of cyanobacteria in symbioses with higher plants suggest that these microorganisms possess previously unstudied or unknown physiological traits which appear within symbiosis. The evidence obtained in studies of Nostoc in natural symbioses as well as in model associations with higher plants together with the data on formation of L-form-like cells in other species reviewed in the book outlined a new field of symbiology dealing with the occurrence of L-transformation of cyanobiont in symbioses. Furthermore, diverse functional specificity of the CWDF within cyanobiont populations was determined. Special attention is paid to the novel phenomenon of the mass deposition in cytoplasm and transport to vesicles formed by cytoplasmic membrane of exopolysaccharides of symbiotic cyanobacteria featuring defective cell wall. Results presented in this chapter suggest that specialized cells including vegetative forms and heterocysts in populations of cyanobacteria adapted to the conditions of life in symbiosis with plants presumably have modified mechanisms of the synthesis and export of these compounds.

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Baulina, O.I. (2012). Ultrastructural Plasticity of Cyanobacteria in Natural Symbioses with Plants. In: Ultrastructural Plasticity of Cyanobacteria. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32781-0_5

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