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Some Growth Characteristics of a Hyphomicrobium sp. in Batch Culture
Author(s) -
Wilkinson T. G.,
Hamer G.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
journal of applied bacteriology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.889
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2672
pISSN - 0021-8847
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1972.tb03739.x
Subject(s) - methanol , oxygen , chemistry , yield (engineering) , substrate (aquarium) , methane , biology , materials science , organic chemistry , ecology , metallurgy
S ummary : A Hyphomicrobium sp. isolated from a mixed culture of methane utilizing micro‐organisms grew rapidly with generation times as short as 4·7 h in pure culture with methanol as the carbon substrate. The stoichiometry of oxygen utilization by this micro‐organism, as indicated by the cell yield with respect to oxygen varied at low levels of dissolved oxygen in the culture medium. In addition, the initial methanol concentration in the medium affected the maximum specific growth rate of the Hyphomicrobium sp.