THE ROLE OF ORGANIC SUBSTRATES IN BACTERIAL PHOTOSYNTHESIS
- 1 August 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 45 (8), 1246-1260
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.45.8.1246
Abstract
The role of organic substrates in bacterial photosynthesis is reviewed and evidence presented confirms the general position of Gaffron that the main function of organic substrates is to serve as readily assimilable sources of C. Although they also provide reducing power for CO2-fixation, this is of minor quantitative importance as a source of cellular carbon.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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