Methanogenic degradation of polysaccharides and the characterization of Polysaccharolytic clostridia from anoxic rice field soil

Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 185-200

  Chin, Kuk Jeong ^a   Rainey, Frederick A ^b,c   Janssen, Peter H ^a   Conrad, Ralf ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR TERRESTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetate; Cellulose; Clostridium; Coculture; Fermentation; Hydrogen; Methanogenesis; Pectin; Temperature; Xylan

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALCOHOL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CELLULOSE; FORMIC ACID; HYDROGEN; LACTIC ACID; METHANE; PECTIN; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROPIONIC ACID; RIBOSOME DNA; SUCCINIC ACID; XYLAN;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODEGRADATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLOSTRIDIUM; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FERMENTATION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICE; SOIL MICROFLORA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLOSTRIDIA; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM PAPYROSOLVENS; METHANOBACTERIUM; METHANOSPIRILLUM HUNGATEI; POSIBACTERIA; SPOROMUSA OVATA;

EID: 0031873023     PISSN: 07232020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0723-2020(98)80023-4     Document Type: Article

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