| 摘要 |
NEW MATERIAL:A bacterium, capable of producing hydrogen gas,-derived from termites and having the following properties. Anaerobic Gram-positive bacillus having motility. Proliferating in a bouillon culture medium containing 0.3% glucose added thereto and a gum bouillon culture medium. Biochemical property; positive (+) to glucose, lactose, maltose, salicin, aesculin, cellobiose, mannose and raffinose, negative (-) to indole, urease, gelatin and catalase and partially negative (-) to mannitol, xylose, trehalose, etc. EXAMPLE:AM14A-2 strain (FERM P-11793). USE:Production of hydrogen gas, decomposition of organic substances (especially saccharides), etc. PREPARATION:Termites suffocated to death are solidified in an agar culture medium, cultured in an anaerobic gas atmosphere and separated. |
