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SUBMITTER: Costa FS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6863204 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] 20190711 3
Serpentine soils present unique characteristics such as a low Ca/Mg ratio, low concentration of nutrients, and a high concentration of heavy metals, especially nickel. Soil bacterial isolates from an ultramafic complex located in the tropical savanna known as the Brazilian Cerrado were studied. Nickel-tolerant bacteria were obtained, and their ability to remove nickel from a culture medium was assessed. Bacterial isolates presented higher tolerance to nickel salts than previously reported for ba ...[more]