Environmental Adaptation in Nostoc sphaeroides: Spherical Multicellularity, Molecular Signalling and Implications for Sustainable Cultivation
Nostoc sphaeroides is a diazotrophic cyanobacterium that forms macroscopic spherical colonies in seasonally flooded paddy fields. Studies of its environmental physiology, colony development and cultivation have largely proceeded independently. This review integrates strain-resolved genomic, transcriptomic, physiologica...