Forty yeast strains isolated from soils taken from different locations in Egypt were tested for their P-solubilizing activities on the basis of analyzing the clear zone around colonies growing on a tricalcium phosphate medium after incubation for 5 days at 25degreesC, denoted as the solubilization index (SI). Nine isolates that exhibited P-solubilization potential with an SI ranging from 1.19 t...

Effluents from monosodium glutamate manufacturing plants possess a high strength of COD (10,000--30,000 mg/l), ammonium (15,000--25,000 mg/l), sulphate (15,000--30,000 mg/l) and very low pH (< 2) (Yang et al., 2005). Effluents from sweat potato starch industry contains a high load of protein, pectin, and starchy materials with the COD of 10,000 35,000 mg/l (Mishra et al., 2004). Due to the low ...

Polymyxin is an antibiotic substance occurring in the culture filtrates of Bacillus polymyxa. The isolated substance is unique in its specificity for gram-negative bacteria. A summary of the more important results obtained during the course of several years, including chemotherapeutic and toxicity data, has been reported (Stansly, Shepherd, and White, 1947). The present contribution is concerne...

Grau, F. H. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and P. W. Wilson. Hydrogenase and nitrogenase in cell-free extracts of Bacillus polymyxa. J. Bacteriol. 85:446-450. 1963.-Washed cells of Bacillus polymyxa strain Hino, treated with lysozyme, yield cell-free extracts that rapidly evolve hydrogen from reduced methyl viologen, formate, and pyruvate. Hydrogenase is particulate, 86% being sedimented a...

A strain of Bacillus polymyxa produced a new peptide antibiotic complex, named LI-F, composed of more than ten components. The components, antibiotics LI-F03, F04, F05, F07, and F08 were isolated from the complex by reversed phase HPLC. They are active against fungi, yeasts, and Gram-positive bacteria. The fast atom bombardment mass spectra revealed that the individual isolated antibiotics are ...

Saccharomyces bailii was isolated from two-thirds of the spoiled mayonnaise and salad dressing samples examined. Most of the rest were spoiled by Lactobacillus fructivorans. However, one sample contained large numbers of both S. bailii and L. plantarum. Two of the spoiled samples also contained small numbers of bacilli. Bacillus subtilis, B. pumilis, B. polymyxa, B. megaterium, and B. lichenifo...