Claim · model-written summary
Heterocysts of Anabaena azollae contained higher amounts of DNA than vegetative cells.
- Taxon
- Anabaena azollae
Trichormus azollaee0 - Organ / stage
- Heterocystse1
- Interactor
- Azolla filiculoides
Azolla filiculoidese0host - Outcome
- amounts of DNAe1
- Direction
- highere1
- Comparator
- vegetative cellse1
Verbatim
e0“Anabaena azollae isolated from the apex to the basal leaf cavities of Azolla filiculoides”
e1“Heterocysts contained higher amounts of DNA than did vegetative cells, and their content strongly increased in the basal leaf cavities”
Title
Antonella Canini; Maria Grilli Caiola; Luigi Ferrucci Cytometry 1992. doi:10.1002/cyto.990130312
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Heterocyst DNA content strongly increased in the basal leaf cavities.
- Observation DAPI brightness of heterocysts was quite uniform along the apex-to-basal groups.
- Observation DAPI brightness of vegetative cells increased from the apex to the basal groups.
- Observation In vegetative cells from the apex to the median group, DAPI brightness was 60-85% of AO brightness.
- Observation In heterocysts of the same apex-to-median groups, DAPI brightness was 40-50% of AO brightness.
- Observation In the basal group, DAPI brightness was comparable to the previous group in both heterocysts and vegetative cells.
- Observation In the basal group, chromomycin brightness increased strongly in heterocysts.
- Observation The authors conclude that the heterocyst changes its DNA content and composition in the basal leaf cavities, suggesting its lifetime is not completely over.