Cultivating marine bacteria under laboratory conditions: Overcoming the "unculturable" dogma.

ABSTRACT: Underexplored seawater environments may contain biological resources with potential for new biotechnological applications. Metagenomic techniques revolutionized the study of bacterial communities but culture dependent methods will still be important to help the biodiscovery of new products and enzymes from marine bacteria. In this context, we promoted the growth of bacteria from a marine rock pond by culture dependent techniques and compared the results with culture independent methods. The total number of bacteria and diversity were studied in different agar plate media during 6 weeks. Agar plate counting was of the same order of magnitude of direct microscopy counts. The highest efficiency of cultivation was 45% attained in marine agar medium. Molecular analysis revealed 10 different phy

SUBMITTER: Rodrigues CJC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9428589 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature