title: Carbon-nitrogen cycling through microbial formamide metabolism.
abstract: A microbially mediated carbon-nitrogen cycle involving a newly isolated facultatively methylotrophic pseudomonad is described. The new isolate utilizes formamide as its sole carbon, nitrogen, and energy source. Other organisms involved in the proposed cycle are cyanogenic plants; phytopathogenic fungi, which convert cyanogenic glycosides to formamide; and nitrifying microorganisms. This cycle may be quantitatively important in view of the large variety of cyanogenic plants known to exist.
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Thatcher
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Weaver