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Science 13 February 1976:
Vol. 191. no. 4227, pp. 559 - 561
DOI: 10.1126/science.191.4227.559
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Photoproduction of Molecular Hydrogen by a Plant-Algal Symbiotic System

J. W. NEWTON 1

1 Northern Regional Research Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, Illinois 61604

The rapidly growing water fern Azolla, which contains a nitrogen-fixing blue-green algal symbiont, has been studied as a possible system for photoproduction of molecular hydrogen. When this plant is grown on a combined nitrogen supply, photochemically generated hydrogen can be diverted through the algal nitrogenase system, which serves as a source of molecular hydrogen generated from water. This symbiosis has several advantages as a possible biological energy conversion system.

Submitted on August 15, 1975
Revised on November 21, 1975

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