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A note on the attachment rate of suspended bacteria to submerged aquatic plants in a calcareous stream
Author(s) -
Rimes Carrie A.,
Goulder R.
Publication year - 1985
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.1365-2672.1985.tb03335.x
Subject(s) - bacteria , calcareous , chemistry , environmental chemistry , biology , botany , genetics
The density of epiphytic bacteria on leaflets of laboratory‐grown Apium nodiflorum , immersed in calcareous stream water, increased linearly with time over 10 h, both in the laboratory and in the field. This increase was probably due to attachment of suspended bacteria. The rate of attachment to leaflets of plants, immersed in a stream at different concentrations of suspended bacteria, was linearly related to the concentration of suspended bacteria. The attachment rate, relative to concentration, was 1.7 × 10 4 bacteria/cm 2 /h for each 10 5 bacteria/ml in the surrounding water.