- Source: Azoarcus
Azoarcus is a genus of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Species in this genus are usually found in contaminated water, as they are involved in the degradation of some contaminants, commonly inhabiting soil. These bacteria have also been found growing in the endophytic compartment (inside the plant between the living cells) of some rice species and other grasses. The genus is within the family Zoogloeaceae in the Rhodocyclales of the Betaproteobacteria.
Many studies reported this genus about its potential extracellular electron uptake metabolism and has been found in the cathodic part of many microbial fuel cells, notably in nitrate and oxygen reducing bio-cathodes biofilms.
References
Further reading
Hurek T, Reinhold-Hurek B (June 1995). "Identification of grass-associated and toluene-degrading diazotrophs, Azoarcus spp., by analyses of partial 16S ribosomal DNA sequences". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 61 (6): 2257–61. Bibcode:1995ApEnM..61.2257H. doi:10.1128/aem.61.6.2257-2261.1995. PMC 167497. PMID 7793946.
Whitman, William B., et al., eds. Bergey's manual® of systematic bacteriology. Vol. 2. Springer, 2012.
Falkow, Stanley; Dworkin, Martin (2006). The prokaryotes: a handbook on the biology of bacteria. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-25495-1.
Malik, Kauser A.; Ladha, J. K.; Bruijn, F. J. de (1997). Opportunities for biological nitrogen fixation in rice and other non-legumes: papers presented at the second working group meeting of the frontier project on nitrogen fixation in rice held at the National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (NIBGE), Faisalabad, Pakistan, 13-15 October 1996. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7923-4514-5.
External links
LPSN
"Azoarcus". The Encyclopedia of Life.
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Azoarcus
- Azoarcus anaerobius
- Azoarcus toluclasticus
- Azoarcus buckelii
- Azoarcus toluvorans
- Azoarcus indigens
- Azoarcus olearius
- Azoarcus evansii
- Azoarcus communis
- Azoarcus tolulyticus
