Cultures of Azolla caroliniana Willd. free of the symbiotic blue-green alga, Anabaena azollae, were obtained by treatment of Azolla fronds with a regimen of antibiotics. These symbiont-free plants can ...
KNOWLEDGE of the nature of the heterocysts of blue-green algae has been limited by the lack of suitable techniques for investigation of the physiology and biochemistry of these puzzling structures.