- Azotobacter
Taxobox
color = lightgrey
name = "Azotobacter"
regnum = Bacteria
phylum =Proteobacteria
classis =Gammaproteobacteria
ordo =Pseudomonadales
familia =Pseudomonadaceae /Azotobacteraceae
genus = "Azotobacter"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision ="Azotobacter vinelandii "
"Azotobacter chroococcum ""Azotobacter" is a
genus of usually motile, oval or sphericalbacteria that form thick-walled cysts, and may produce large quantities of capsular slime. Azotobacter is an aerobic, free-living soil microbe which fixes nitrogen from the atmosphere. Beyond Azotobacter’s use as amodel organism it has biotechnological applications. Examples are its use foralginate production and fornitrogen production in batch fermentations ref|1,ref|2. Polyhydroxybutyrate is produced under certain conditions. Azotobacter are Gram-negative bacteria.References
*Clementi F. 1997. Alginate production by Azotobacter vinelandii.
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=9397533&dopt=Abstract Crit Rev Biotechnol. 17(4):327-61]
*Dixon R and Kahn D. 2004. Genetic regulation of biological nitrogen fixation. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2(8):621-31. [http://www.google.de/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A//www.jic.bbsrc.ac.uk/staff/ray-dixon/nrmicrofinal.pdf&ei=ElH-QpvhJZ2aiAKGmrU3] (pdf, 463kb)ee also
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Acetobacter External links
* [http://www.azotobacter.org Homepage of the "Azotobacter vinelandii" genome project]
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