Affiliation:
1. Department of Microbiology, Macdonald College of McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Road, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Québec, Canada H9X 1C0
Abstract
A heterotrophic semisolid medium was used with two sensitive assay methods, C
2
H
2
reduction and O
2
-dependent tritium uptake, to determine nitrogenase and hydrogenase activities, respectively. Organisms known to be positive for both activities showed hydrogenase activity in both the presence and absence of 1% C
2
H
2
, and thus, it was possible to test a single culture for both activities. Hydrogen uptake activity was detected for the first time in N
2
-fixing strains of
Pseudomonas stutzeri.
The method was then applied to the most-probable-number method of counting N
2
-fixing and H
2
-oxidizing bacteria in some natural systems. The numbers of H
2
-oxidizing diazotrophs were considerably higher in soil surrounding nodules of white beans than they were in the other systems tested. This observation is consistent with reports that the rhizosphere may be an important ecological niche for H
2
transformation.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
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