Carbon-Nitrogen Cycling Through Microbial Formamide Metabolism
- 18 June 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 192 (4245) , 1234-1235
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.192.4245.1234
Abstract
A microbially mediated carbon-nitrogen cycle involving a newly isolated facultatively methylotrophic pseudomonad is described. The new isolate utilizes formamide as its sole carbon, nitrogen, and energy source. Other organisms involved in the proposed cycle are cyanogenic plants; phytopathogenic fungi, which convert cyanogenic glycosides to formamide; and nitrifying microorganisms. This cycle may be quantitatively important in view of the large variety of cyanogenic plants known to exist.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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