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Cyanobacteria in rice soils

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Cyanobacteria were recovered from each of 38 soil samples collected from local rice fields. Of the 84 species belonging to 31 genera that were isolated, 42 were heterocystous diazotrophic species belonging to 14 genera and the remaining were non-heterocystous. Fischerella, Nostoc and Calothrix were widespread.

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  1. Z. U. M. Khan
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  2. Z. N. Tahmida Begum
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Z.U.M. Khan is with the Department of Botany, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Z.N. Tahmida Begum and M.Z. Hossain are with the Department of Botany and R. Mandal is with the Department of Soil Science, bot at the University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh;

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Khan, Z.U.M., Tahmida Begum, Z.N., Mandal, R. et al. Cyanobacteria in rice soils. World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology 10, 296–298 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00414867

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