The large capacity for dark nitrate‐assimilation in diatoms may overcome nitrate limitation of growth
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- 18 June 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in New Phytologist
- Vol. 155 (1) , 101-108
Abstract
• The ability of the diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii to assimilate inorganic N in darkness is compared with that seen in flagellates. • Experiments were conducted with T. weissflogii grown in...Keywords
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