Volume : III, Issue : XI, November - 2013

Nostocales of Jammu, J&K, India

Bharat Bhushan, Mukesh Kumar

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Cyanobacteria are the pioneer oxygenic, gram negative photosynthetic organisms which constitute a large group of prokaryotes. They exhibit great diversity of form and functions. The present study was emphasized to study the distribution of Cyanobacterial flora of order Nostocales of Jammu. The Cyanobacterial samples were collected from different seasons i.e., summer, rainy and winter. A total of 36 species belonging to 7 genera, 3 families and 2 sub–families. The genera include the species of Spirulina (2), Oscillatoria (21), Phormidium (3), Lyngbya (5), Nostoc (1), Aulosira (2) and Calothrix (2). The number put in parentheses represent the number of the species of a particular genus. Most of the species are lithophytic followed by epiphytic, planktonic, terrestrial, epipelic and miscellaneous habitats. Some of the taxa, fix atmospheric and have the capability to assimilate both carbon as well as nitrogen from the atmosphere

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BHARAT BHUSHAN, MUKESH KUMAR / Nostocales of Jammu, J&K, India / Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.3, Issue.11 November 2013

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