We evaluated anti-Campylobacter activity among 365 Bacillus and Paenibacillus isolates from poultry production environments. One novel antagonistic Bacillus circulans and three Paenibacillus polymyxa strains were identified and further studied. Cell-free ammonium sulfate precipitate (crude antimicrobial preparation) was obtained from each candidate culture. Zones of Campylobacter growth inhibit...

Erysiphe is the largest genus of powdery mildews (PMs), a group obligate plant pathogenic fungi. Exploration biodiversity generally relies on regional surveys and our aim to investigate PMs in Taiwan. Collections fungi five species around agricultural environments were subjected morphological molecular characterization, using both internal transcribed spacer (ITS) β-tubulin gene (TUB2) regions ...

Six microorganisms that produced acetoin or diacetyl or both from glucose were tested for the production of 2,3-butylene glycol from lactose. Bacillus polymyxa and Streptococcus faecalis gave positive results and were tested in unmodified wheys. Cottage cheese whey was unsatisfactory, but B. polymyxa produced large amounts of the glycol in sweet whey, about 60 mmol of glycol per 100 mmol of lac...

Ligniera junci, a plasmodiophorid parasite of Juncus spp. was found at three locations in Tyrol. The morphologically similar plasmodiophorid of Poaceae Polymyxa graminis was found to co-occur at two of these locations. This is the first record of these species in Austria. Colour photographs of resting spores of Ligniera junci in roots of Juncus triglumis and Polymyxa graminis in roots of Poacea...

The endospore of Bacillus polymyxa was originally described by Meyer (1897) in a study of a bacillus which he designated Astasia asterospora. Meyer's drawings of the spore, showing ridges and the star shaped aspect, were reproduced by Knaysi (1951) over the name Bacillus asterosporus. It has not been generally recognized that this name is synonymous with B. polymyxa (Smith, et al., 1952). So th...

The gene for beta-amylase was isolated from BacUlus polymyxa by molecular cloning in B. subtils. B. subtlis cells containing this gene express and secrete an amylase which resembles the B. polymyxa beta-amylase and barley beta-amylase in terms of the products it generates during carbohydrate hydrolysis. Starch hydrolysis with this beta-amylase produces maltose, not glucose, whereas maltotriose ...

Метою роботи є огляд нещодавнiх дослiджень генетичних модифiкацiй метаболiзму P. polymyxa для пiдвищення її продуктивностi виробництва 2,3-бутандiолу.

In general, spores of B. cereus, B. megaterium, B. Sphaericus and B. subtilis strains germinated uniformly within a short time of incubation in a germination medium. In contrast, spores of B, circulans, B. brevis, B. laterosporus, B. pulvifaciens, B. polymyxa, B. pumilus, B. licheniformis and B. coagulans strains were usually slow and/or uneven germinators under the same conditions of incubatio...