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Bacillus alkalidiazotrophicus sp. nov., a diazotrophic, low salt-tolerant alkaliphile isolated from Mongolian soda soil.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology - 1 Oct 2008
Sorokin Ivan D, Kravchenko Irina K, Tourova Tatjana P, Kolganova Tatjana V, Boulygina Eugenia S, Sorokin Dimitry Yu
Abstract excerpt
Strain MS 6(T) was obtained from a microoxic enrichment with a soda soil sample from north-eastern Mongolia in nitrogen-free alkaline medium at pH 10. The isolate had clostridia-like motile cells and formed ellipsoid endospores. It was able to fix dinitrogen gas growing on nitrogen-free alkaline medium. Strain MS 6(T) was a strictly fermentative bacterium without a respiratory chain, although it had a high...
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