CHARACTERIZATION OF ANABAENA AZOLLAE ISOLATED FROM AZOLLA PINNATA | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Agricultural Research | ||
| Article 1, Volume 91, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 801-809 PDF (728.16 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejar.2013.164847 | ||
| Author | ||
| Azza A.M. Abd El-AAl | ||
| Soils, Water and Environment Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Giza, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A symbiotically associated cyanobacterium (Anabaena azollae) was isolated from Azolla pinnata and cultured under a free-living state. It is characterized by filamentous brown to olive in color culture, its vegetative cells are cylindrical and their diameters ranged from 8 to 9µm width and from 5 to 6 µm length. Heterocysts were found to be internal and terminal in the filament, its shape is spherical and its diameters ranged from 9 to 9.5 µm width and from 9 to 9.5 µm length. Akintes are present with cylindrical shape, with diameters of 9-10 µm width and 6-8 µm length. Nitrogenase activity of Anabaena azollae increased gradually from 0.1786 to 4.7992 μ mole C2H4 g soil/hr along 4 weeks. The strain showed high efficacy in suppressing the fungal mycelial growth of either Fusarium oxysporum or Alternaria alternate by 100 %. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Anabaena azollae; Azolla pinnata; Morphological characterization | ||
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