Ethylene-forming Bacteria from Soil and Water
- 1 December 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of General Microbiology
- Vol. 97 (2) , 343-346
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-97-2-343
Abstract
A total of 71 bacterial isolates were obtained from soil and water samples. All of the gram-negative isolates (65) were identified: Citrobacter sp., Enterobacter cloacae, Erwinia herbicola, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp., Serratia liquefaciens, Aeromonas hydrophila and Pseudomonas spp. Of the gram-positive isolates, 2 were identified as Arthrobacter sp.; the remainder (4) resembled Arthrobacter but were too saccharolytic to be classified in the genus. All of the isolates produced ethylene only when methionine was present in the growth medium, suggesting that it is the precursor for ethylene.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: