Surface-associated growth
Surface-associated growth
In natural ecosystems, microbial activity is often associated with the presence of a surface, particularly in low-nutrient environments. The chemostat allows the study of such low-nutrient environments together with the precise control of other growth parameters. By using this system, enrichment cultures with inocula from two different river sources have been made. A more diverse community attached itself to surfaces placed in the chemostat when the cultures were carbon-limited than when the limiting nutrient was nitrogen. Further studies on a pseudomonad isolated from the carbon-limited enrichment cultures have shown that surface-associated organisms grow at approximately twice the rate of the same organism in the free surrounding medium. A hypothesis to explain this phenomenon based on the chemiosmotic theory is discussed.
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Ellwood, D. C.
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Keevil, C. W.
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Marsh, P. D.
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Brown, C. M.
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Wardell, J. N.
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11 June 1982
Ellwood, D. C.
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Keevil, C. W.
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Marsh, P. D.
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Brown, C. M.
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Wardell, J. N.
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Ellwood, D. C., Keevil, C. W., Marsh, P. D., Brown, C. M. and Wardell, J. N.
(1982)
Surface-associated growth.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 297 (1088), .
(doi:10.1098/rstb.1982.0058).
Abstract
In natural ecosystems, microbial activity is often associated with the presence of a surface, particularly in low-nutrient environments. The chemostat allows the study of such low-nutrient environments together with the precise control of other growth parameters. By using this system, enrichment cultures with inocula from two different river sources have been made. A more diverse community attached itself to surfaces placed in the chemostat when the cultures were carbon-limited than when the limiting nutrient was nitrogen. Further studies on a pseudomonad isolated from the carbon-limited enrichment cultures have shown that surface-associated organisms grow at approximately twice the rate of the same organism in the free surrounding medium. A hypothesis to explain this phenomenon based on the chemiosmotic theory is discussed.
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Published date: 11 June 1982
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ISSN: 0962-8436
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