Prochlorococcus marinus
Description
New daughter set created every three weeks
Daughter set……….…6umol quanta m-2 s-1
Mother set………….….7umol quanta m-2 s-1
Grandmother set….…..9umol quanta m-2 s-1
Documentation:
Glutamine synthetase from the marine cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus spp.: characterization, phylogeny and response to nutrient limitation (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12713467/)
Nitrate is reduced by heterotrophic bacteria by not transferred to Prochlorococcus in non-axenic cultures (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19709249/)