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Continuous culture studies have been carried out on a strain ofA. brasilense to study ammonia excretion, dinitrogen fixation and ammonia assimilatory enzymes (glutamate-ammonia ligase and glutamate synthase (NADPH)) in encysted conditions. High glutamate synthase (NADPH) and low ammonia excretion was observed at the time of induction of cyst formation. Low and oscillating nitrogenase activity was observed throughout the experiment.
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Narula, N., Kleiner, D. Relationship of ammonia excretion, dinitrogen fixation and ammonia assimilatory enzymes to encystation in a continuous culture ofAzospirillum brasilense . Folia Microbiol 40, 333–336 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02814218
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