Premium
Growth Curves and pH‐Optima for Cyanide Producing Bacteria
Author(s) -
Wissing Feode
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
physiologia plantarum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.351
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1399-3054
pISSN - 0031-9317
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-3054.1968.tb07283.x
Subject(s) - cyanide , bacteria , hydrogen cyanide , glycine , chemistry , pseudomonas , tris , amino acid , biochemistry , organic chemistry , chromatography , biology , genetics
Hydrogen cyanide producing bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas were isolated and cultured so that activity could bo maintained under laboratory conditions. Formation of cyanide is influenced by the type of Carbon source and the amino acids contained in the media. The bacteria produced most cyanide when grown on succinate plus glycine methyl ester and on glucose plus glycine and D, L‐methionine. pH‐Optima for the production of cyanide by lyophilized bacteria were found to be 8.3 with Tris/HCI buffer.