[Isolation and identification of Rhodopseudomonas acidophila from Fujian province, China].
A strain P301 of Gram negative purple nonsulfur bacterium was isolated from the ditch's mud collected in Fuzhou, Fujian. The cells are rod-shaped. Multiplication occur by budding without stalk formation. Growth optimum pH is 5.0-5.7. No growth factors required. The cells contain bacteriochlorophyll a. The photosynthetic membrane system consists of parallel lamellae. According to Bergery's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 8th ed. (1974) and 9th ed. (1994), the strain was identified to be Rhodopseudomonas acidophila. But on the side of enzyme activity, utilization of organic substrates and others the strain some differ from the type strain described by N Pfennig (1969). Therefore the strain P301 was identified to be Rhodopseudomonas acidophila var. fujianensis n. var.
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Bio-Engineering College, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou 350007.
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D002681:China; D003470:Culture Media; D012241:Rhodopseudomonas / Q000145:classification / Q000166:cytology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D012722:Sewage / Q000382:microbiology
D003470:Culture Media; D012722:Sewage