Structural and functional study suggests DnfC is a putative glutamine amidotransferase in the dirammox pathway Microbial ammonia oxidation is essential for biogeochemical nitrogen cycling and wastewater treatment. Besides the well-studied nitrification and anae…

Structural and functional study suggests DnfC is a putative glutamine amidotransferase in the dirammox pathway #heterotrophic #Nitrification
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Fungi growing out of dead wood on the forest floor.

Dead Wood
#photography
#fungi
#Heterotrophic

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Into the Spongy-Verse: Structural Differences between Leaf and #Flower #Mesophyll
Jeroen D M Schreel, et al
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#microtomography #mesophyll #botany #heterotrophic

A cartoon illustrating the trade-off between photosynthesis and respiration, together with a short text summary of the paper by Hida et al, and below are headshots of the three first co-authors (S. Hida, M. Nishio and K. Uesaka) together with their brief text biographies.

Coping in the dark...

Hida et al. isolated phosphatase mutations that caused #phototrophic– #heterotrophic switching in dark-grown #cyanobacteria; a useful approach for dissecting evolutionary steps towards loss of photosynthetic capacity in #ParasiticPlants

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#PlantScience

I never saw so many cryptophytes in one phytoplankton sample! ~966,605 individuals per litre.
Probably Plagioselmis nannoplanctica , but open to correction. #BurrishooleLTER @MarineInst #plankton #lakes #heterotrophic