THE DESERT EPIPHYTE TILLANDSIA-RECURVATA HARBORS THE NITROGEN-FIXING BACTERIUM PSEUDOMONAS-STUTZERI

Authors
PUENTE ME BASHAN Y
Citation
Me. Puente et Y. Bashan, THE DESERT EPIPHYTE TILLANDSIA-RECURVATA HARBORS THE NITROGEN-FIXING BACTERIUM PSEUDOMONAS-STUTZERI, Canadian journal of botany, 72(3), 1994, pp. 406-408
Citations number
16
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
Canadian journal of botany → ACNP
ISSN journal
00084026
Volume
72
Issue
3
Year of publication
1994
Pages
406 - 408
Database
ISI
SICI code
0008-4026(1994)72:3<406:TDETHT>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Pseudomonas stutzeri, a nitrogen-fixing bacterium, was isolated from t he interior of the desert epiphyte Tillandsia recurvata, which grows o n electrical cables and giant columnar cacti in the semiarid zone of B aja California, Mexico. This study is the first to indicate the possib le close association between bromeliad plants and nitrogen-fixing bact eria.