Nitrogen Fixation: Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Nitrogen Fixation with Non-Legumes, Florence, Italy, 10–14 September 1990 PDF
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NITROGEN FIXAn ON Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences VOLUME 48 The titles published in this series are listed at the end a/this volume. Nitrogen Fixation Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Nitrogen Fixation with Non-Legumes, Florence, Italy, 10-14 September 1990 Edited by M. POLSINELLI, R. MATERASSI and M. VINCENZINI University of Florence, Florence,ltaly SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data International Symposium on Nitrogen Fixation with Non-legumes (5th 1990 Florence, Italy) Nitrogen fixation proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on Nitrogen Fixation with Non-legumes, Florence, Italy, 10-14 September, 1990 / edited by M. Polsinelli, R. Materassi, and M. Vincenzini. p. cm. -- (Developments in plant and soil sciences ; v. 48) ISBN 978-94-010-5541-3 ISBN 978-94-011-3486-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-3486-6 1. Nitrogen--Fixation--Congresses. 2. Nitrogen-fixing microorganisms--Congresses. 1. Polslnelli, M. (Mario) II. Materassi, R. III. Vincenzini, M. IV. Title. V. Series. QR89.7.159 1990 589.9'0133--dc20 91-28411 ISBN 978-94-010-5541-3 Printed on acid-free paper AII Rights Reserved © 1991 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1991 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1s t edition 1991 No part of the material protected by this copyright notice may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, inc\uding photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the copyright owner. Contents Opening lecture * A. Quispel, A critical evaluation of the prospects for nitrogen fixation with non-legumes 1 Free living diazotrophs C. Kennedy et al., Regulation of expression of genes for three nitrogenases in Azotobacter vinelan- dii 13 R. Kreutzer et aI., Genetic characterization of nitrogen fixation in Enterobacter strains from the rhizosphere of cereals 25 N. Abe et aI., Analysis of nitrogenase reaction using monoclonal antibodies against -subunit of component I of A. vinelandii 37 D. Govezensky et al., Involvement of GroEL in Klebsiella pneumoniae nif gene expression and nitrogenase assembly 43 * M. Simek et al., The effect of some terrestrial oligochaeta on nitrogenase activity in the soil 49 Posters M.J. Merrick and J.R. Coppard, Cassette mutagenesis of a proposed DNA-binding motif in klebsiella pneumoniae rpon (sigma 54) 55 N. Miclaus et al., Characterization of a mutant of Azotobacter chroococcum resistant to some fungicides 57 G. Blanco et al., A chromosomal linkage map of Azotobacter vinelandii 59 L.A. Syrtsova et al., Energy coupling and electron transfer in nitrogenase 61 F. Bermudez de Castro et al., Fluctuation of the ara under elaeagnus angustifolia canopy 63 A. Sawicka, The influence of root exudates on dinitrogen fixation of chosen free-living bacteria 65 A. Pidello and L. Menendez, Soil redox potential in presence of azospirillum 67 N. Miclaus et aI., Biofertilization of maize with free-living nitrogen fixing bacteria: results of field trials on grain production 69 D.M.S. Mano et aI., Kinetics of kelthane uptake and distribution in azospirillum lipoferum 71 T. Langenbach et al., Bioaccumulation of the acaricide kelthane (dicofol) by azospirillum lipoferum 73 Y.Z. Ishac et aI., Effect of biofertilizers on controlling fusarium solani f. Sp. phaseoli 75 P. Montaini et aI., Phyllospheric nitrogen fixing bacteria in tillandsia leaves 77 Root-associated diazotrophs C. Elmerich et aI., Nif and nod genes in Azospirillum 79 * R.H. Burris et aI., Control of nitrogenase in Azospirillum sp. 89 * J. Boonjawat et al., Biology of nitrogen-fixing bacteria 97 * Reprinted from Plant and Soil, Volume 137, No.1, 1991. Vi * RM. Boddey et al., Biological nitrogen fixation associated with sugar cane 105 Y. Okon et aI., Physiological properties of Azospirillum brasilense involved in root growth promotion 113 C. Schipani et al. Regulation of the nifHDK genes transcription in Azospirillum brasilense 127 M.A Knopik et al., Cloning ofthe nifA and nifB genes of AzospiriIlum brasilense strain FP2 133 AK. Tripathi et al. Regulation of nitrogen fixation genes in Azospirillum: characterization of A nif regulatory region 139 A Haegi et aI., Azospirillum-plant interaction: a biochemical approach 147 * A Hartman et aI., Osmotollerance of diazotrophic rhizosphere bacteria 155 P. Barbieri et aI., Azospirillum-gramineae interaction: effect of indole-3-acetic acid 161 S. Ventura et aI., DNA restriction fingerprint for the identification of Azospirilla 169 * Y. Bashan et aI., Alteration in membrane potential and in proton efflux in plant roots induced by Azospirillum brasilense 175 * M. Del Gallo et al., Effect of soil organic matter on chickpea inoculated with Azospirillum brasilense and Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. ciceri 181 * H. Levanony et al., Active attachment of Azospirillum brasilense to root surface of non-cereal plants and to sand particles 187 * C.B. You et aI., Association of Alcaligenes jaecalis with wetland rice 195 * J. Fages et aI., Sunflower inoculation with Azospirillum and other P.G.P.R 201 * K.M. Khammas et al., Characterization of a pectinolytic activity in Azospirillum irakense 205 * K.A Malik et aI., Associative N2-fixation in plants growing in saline sadic soils and its relative quantification based on 15N natural abundance 211 K. Michiels et aI., Genetic analysis of the Azospirillum plant-root interaction 219 * J.P. Pimentel et aI., Dinitrogen fixation and infection of grass leaves by Pseudomonas rubrisubal- bicans and Herbaspirillum seropedicae 225 C. Fritzche et al., Growth parameters of microaerobic diazotrophic rhizobacteria determined in continuous culture 231 T. Hurek et aI., Infection of intact roots of kallar grass and rice seedlings by Azoarcus 235 * R Rai, Strain-specific salt tolerance and chemotaxis of Azospirillum brasilense and their associa- tive N-fixation with finger millet in saline calcareous soil 243 J. Ueckert et aI., Nitrate reductase activity of Azospirillum brasilense sp7 and sp245 V - and C - forms in continuous culture 249 H. Vandenhove et aI., Microcalorimetric study of the growth of Azospirillum brasilense: relation between heat production and other growth parameters 255 * Y.T. Tchan et aI., Nitrogen fixation in P- nodules of wheat roots by introduced free-living diazotrophs 269 AJ. Palomares et aI., Firefly luciferase expression on nitrogen fixation with non-legumes 275 Posters L. Civardi et aI., Nucleotide sequence of regulatory regions of Azospirillum brasilense 283 M. Delledonne et aI., Nucleotide sequence and expression of an Azospirillum nod homologous region 285 vii I. Giannellini et al., Isolation and characterization of TN5 induced Azospirillum brasilense mutants alterated in calcofluor straining 287 A. Milcampii, In vitro construction of Lacz gene fusions with the nifhdk operon of azospirillum brasilense 289 M. Bazzicalupo et at, Isolation and characterization of Azospirillum Brasilense mutants altered in the production of siderophores 291 M. Gillis et at, Taxonomic relationships between [Pseudomonas] Rubrisubalbicans, some clinical isolates (EF group 1), Herbaspirillum Seropedicae and [Aquaspirillum] Autotrophicum 293 I. Giannellini et at, Study on the binding of azospirillum strains to plant tissues 295 M. Fulchieri et aI., Effect of Azospirillum lipoferum and GA3 on root growth in com 297 M.A. Paula et al., Interactions of V A-mycorrhizae with Acetobacter diazotrophicus inoculated into sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas L. Lam.) 299 E. Ruckdaschel et at, Genetic and biochemical studies on the production of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) in azospirillum lipoferum 301 M. R. Alonso et al., Autoregulation of pH by Azospirillum spp. 303 L. Halda et al., Nitrogen fixing bacteria isolated from maize root and antagonistic activity against Fusarium sp 305 Nguyen Ngoc Dung et at, Some characters of Azospirillum spp. isolated from the rice fields near Hanoi, Vietnam 307 A. Givaudan et at, Melanin production by Azospirillum Lipoferum strains 311 E. Paul et at, Effect of p02' pC02 and agitation on growth kinetics of Azospirillum lipoferum under fermentor conditions 313 S. Urquiaga et al., Selection of wetland rice genotypes for associated biological nitrogen fixation 315 M. Monib et al., Enrichment of tomato sand cultures with composite inocula of associative dinitrogen fixers, p-dissolving bacilli and vam. 317 B.E. Baca et at, Partial purification and properties of two aromatic amino acid aminotransferases from the A. brasilense UAP 14 strain indole-3-acetic acid producer 321 B.E. Baca et aI, Characterization and regulation of two enzymatic activities involved in biosynthesis of indoleacetic acid in Azospirillum Brasilense UAP 14 strain 323 P. de Troch et al., Analysis of extracellular polysaccharides of Azospirillum Brasilense 325 C. Baggio et at, N03- and Fe++ uptake in durum wheat is affected by Azospirillum brasilense inoculation 327 B. Krstie et at, Efficiency of Azotobacter strains depending of nitrogen level and sugar beet genotypes 329 M. Sarie et at, Specific responses of azotobacter strains and sugar beet genotypes 333 L.P. Vasyuk et at, Associative diazothrops of different systematic groups and their effect on the productivity of agricultural crops 337 S. Waschiitza et aI., Construction of a growth chamber for long-termed axenic plant cultivation 339 C. Scotti et aI., N2 fixing bacteria in the Rhizosphere of natural populations of Italian Ryegrass (Lotium multiforum L.) 341 C. Cassinelli et al., Studies on few strains of azospirilla colonizing maize rhizosphere: their establishment on roots and effects on plant physiology 343 viii V. Catska et at, Root-associated diazotrophs used as plant growth stimulators 345 N. Andriollo et at, Screening program for the isolation of N2-fixing bacteria of the genus azospiril- lum 347 D. Lippi et aI., Interactions between azospirillum and sorghum rhizosphere isolates under different cultural condiitons 349 P. Quatrini et aI., Competition in sorghum rhizosphere among Azospirillum and indigenous bacteria 351 P. Montaini et aI., Nitrogenase activity in the tobacco rhizosphere 353 E. Gallori et aI., Effect of different pesticides on Azospirillum Brasilense 355 P. Iacopini et aI., Experiments of Azospirilium bacterization of maize seeds (zea mais L,) in open field 357 Nitrogen-fixing photosynthetic microorganisms 1 - Free living and symbiotic cyanobacteria R. Haselkorn et at, Nitrogen fixation in filamentous cyanobacteria. 359 H. Bothe et aI., Recent aspects on the hydrogenase-nitrogenase relationship in cyanobacteria 367 * G.A. Peters, Azolla and other plant-cyanobacteria symbioses: aspects of form and function 377 E. Tel-Or et aI., Structure, metabolism and nitrogenase regulation in the Azolla-Anabaena associa- tion 389 A. Herrero et aI. Regulation of nitrogen assimilation in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus 399 L.A. Onek et aI., Calcium, dinitrogen fixation and calmodulin in a Nostoc 405 * G.A. Peschek et aI., Respiratory protection of the nitrogenase in dinitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria 411 K.P. Bader et aI., Photosynthetic oxygen evolution in the filamentous cyanobacterium Oscillatoria chalybea: interrelationship between water splitting, hydrogen peroxide decomposition and nitrate metabolism 419 E. Fernandez Valiente et al., Photosynthesis and respiration in mixotrophic cultures of the cyanobac- terium Anabaena variabilis 425 M.C. Lazzaro et at, A possible role of flavodoxin in nitrogen fixation in heterocysts from Anabaena 431 L.J. Stal et at, Photosynthesis and nitrogen fixation in the unicellular cyanobacterium Gloeothece PCC 6909 437 * M. Villbrandt et al., Diurnal and seasonal variation of nitrogen fixation and photosynthesis in cyanobacterial mats 443 A. Canini et aI., Superoxide dismutase detection in Anabaena azollae strasb. isolated from Azolla jiliculoiies LAM 447 * F. Carrapi~o, Are bacteria the third partner of the Azolla-Anabaena symbiosis? 453 * C. Forni et at, Effects of antibiotic treatments on Azolla-Anabaena and Arthrobacter 457 * W.J. Zimmerman et al., The Anabaena-Azolla symbiosis: diversity and relatedness of neotrophic host taxa 463 * T. de Waha Baillonville et al., Assessment and attempt to explain the high performances of Azolla in subdesertic trophies versus humid tropics 467 S.A. Kulasooriya, Constraints for the widespread use of Azolla in rice production 473 * M.C. Margheri et aI., Heterotrophic metabolism and regulation of uptake hydrogenase activity in ix symbiotic cyanobacteria 481 * S. Boussiba, Nitrogen fixing cyanobacteria potential uses 487 2 - Photosynthetic anoxygenic bacteria S. Nordlund, Metabolic regulation of nitrogen fixation in anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria 491 A. Colbeau et al., Organization of the genes encoding uptake hydrogenase in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus 503 * J. Oelze, Diazotrophic mixed culture of Azotobacter vinelandii and Rhodobacter capsulatus 509 Y. Jouanneau et al., Structural and genetic studies on four ferredoxins from the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus: probable involvement in nitrogen fixation 513 Posters J.S. Yunes et al., Growth and amino acid liberation by a mutant strain of Anabaena variabilis resistant to the amino acid analogue azetidine 2-carboxylic acid 519 L. Bolanos et at, Interaction B-Ca on the nitrogenase activity in nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria (Anabaena PCC 7119) 521 J.R. Milam et al., The effect of ammonia-excreting cyanobacteria on the growth of rice 523 J.R. Gallon et at, Photoautotrophic and photoheterotrophic N2 fixation in Oscillatoria spp exposed to alternating light and darkness 525 P. Lindblad et al., Occurrence and localization of an uptake hydrogenase in the filamentous heterocystous cyanobacterium nostoc PCC 73102 527 B. Marsalek et al., The effect of phytohormones on nitrogenase activity and growth of nostoc muscorum agardh 529 M. Jha et aI., Effect of ammonium on the nitrogenase activity of Anabaena variabilis 531 I. Bohm et aI., Modification and in.,vitro activation of dinitrogenase reductase from anabaena variabilis 533 A. Quesada et aI., Nitrogen fixation in Spanish ricefields 535 L. Tomaselli et al., Production of dinitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria for soil inoculation 537 B. Pushparaj et aI., Productivity of the marine nitrogen fixing cyanobacterium nodularia sp. in outdoor culture 539 J. R. Dias et al., Studies on rice production using Azalia as biofertilizer in Guinea-Bissau 541 Cang Lin et aI., The roles of Anabaena Azollae in Anabaena-Azalia association 543 N. Esiobu et aI., Field studies using 15N dilution techniques on Azalia N contribution to rice in Nigeria 545 P. Albertano et aI., Localization of nitrogen in the Azolla-Anabaena symbiosis by eftem 551 S.O. Sanni, The pattern of release of azolla-nitrogen in flooded and unflooded soils at three temperatures 555 R. Caudales et aI., Factors controlling morphological changes and the life cycle of nitrogen-fixing cyanobionts in different Azalla species 561 R. Caudales et at, Fatty acid composition of free-living anabaena and nostoc cyanobacteria and of cyanobionts from different azalla species 563 M.A. Monsalve et at, Dinitrogen fixation (ara) in Lobaria Pulmonaria 565 x A. Endal et aI., Biological nitrogen fixation in arctic soil and vegetation determined by the acetylene reduction methode 567 E. Soderback et al., The Nostoc-Gunnera Magellanica symbiosis: developmental patterns related to nitrogen fixation 569 L. Vagnoli et al., Morphological and physiological characterization of N2-fixing symbiotic cyanobacteria 571 S. Shestakov et aI., Genetic organization of Rhodobacter sphaeroides chromosome region contain- ing gene GLNA 573 J. Pierrard et aI., Factors involved in selection of Nif-mutants in N-limited cultures of the photosyn- thetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus 575 C. Duport et al., Genetic characterization of the gene encoding ferredoxin II from the nitrogen fixing phototrophic bacterium rhodobacter capsulatus 577 C. Grabau et aI., DNA sequence of a new ferredoxin gene mapping in a nifRegion of Rhodobacter capsulatus, and expression in Escherichia coli 579 A. Gori et al., Analysis of DNA restriction pattern in the genus ectothiorhodospira 581 A.F. Yakunin et al., Effect ofMo, V and W on the growth and nitrogenase synthesis in phototrophic bacteria 583 R. Borghese et aI., Nitrogen metabolism in Rhodobacter capsulatus 585 E. Brostedt et aI., Purification of a pyruvate: oxidoreductase from nitrogen fixing Rhodospirillum rubrum 587 H.Y. Song et aI., Derepression of nitrogenase by 2-ketoglutarate in a glutamate auxotroph of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 589 G. Tassinato et aI., Outdoor Hydrogen Photoevolution by immobilized cells of Rhodopseudomonas palustris 591 F. Milicia et aI., Azolla Biomass as green manure for rice in calabria 593 Diazotrophic actinomycetes * A.D.L. Akkermans et al., Molecular ecology of Frankia: advantages and disadvantages of the use of DNA probes 595 A. Seguin et aI., Expression of actinorhizins in the development of the Frankia-Alnus symbiosis 601 * J. Schwencke, Rapid exponential growth and increased biomass yield for some Frankia strains in buffered and stirred mineral medium (BAP) added ofphosphatidyl choline 615 M.G. Girgis et al., Enhancing nodulation and growth of Casuarina glauca planted in substrate already infected with Frankia 621 M.P. Fernandez et al., Structure of the genus Frankia 629 Posters V.N. Akimov et aI., Grouping of Frankia strains by DNA-DNA homology: how many genospecies are in the genus Frankia? 635 M. Bosco et aI., Genetic diversity of elaeagnus-isolated Frankia strains infective on both alnus and elaeagnus 637 E. 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