| three distinct clades of cultured heterocystous cyanobacteria constitute the dominant n2-fixing members of biological soil crusts of the colorado plateau, usa. | the identity of the numerically dominant n(2)-fixing bacteria in biological soil crusts of the colorado plateau region and two outlying areas was determined using multiple approaches, to link the environmental diversity of nifh gene sequences to cultured bacterial isolates from the regions. of the nifh sequence-types detected in soil crusts of the colorado plateau, 89% (421/473) were most closely related to nifh signature sequences from cyanobacteria of the order nostocales. n(2)-fixing cyanobac ... | 2007 | 17381526 |