Free-living heterotrophic nitrogen-fixing bacteria isolated from fuel-contaminated antarctic soils.

ABSTRACT: Five bacterial isolates enriched from fuel-contaminated Antarctic soils fixed nitrogen in the dark heterotrophically and nonsymbiotically. Two isolates utilized jet fuel vapors and volatile hydrocarbons for growth but not in N-deficient medium. Bacteria such as these may contribute to in situ biodegradation of hydrocarbons in Antarctic soils.

SUBMITTER: Eckford R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC126386 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature