Identification of facultatively heterotrophic, N2-fixing cyanobacteria able to receive plasmid vectors from Escherichia coli by conjugation.
Plasmid vectors transferable by conjugation from Escherichia coli to obligately photoautotrophic strains of Anabaena spp. are also transferred to and maintained in heterotrophic, filamentous cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc. These organisms can be used for the genetic analysis of oxygenic photosynthesis, chromatic adaptation, nitrogen fixation, and heterocyst development.
D003227:Conjugation, Genetic; D000458:Cyanobacteria / Q000235:genetics*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics*; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D009586:Nitrogen Fixation; D010957:Plasmids