Biological Soil Crusts (BSCs) are organosedimentary assemblages comprised of microbes and minerals in topsoil of terrestrial environments. BSCs strongly impact soil quality in dryland ecosystems (e.g., soil structure and nutrient yields) due to pioneer species such as Microcoleus vaginatus; phototrophs that produce filaments that bind the soil together, and support an array of heterotrophic mic...

Although magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are ubiquitous in aquatic habitats, they are still considered fastidious microorganisms with regard to growth and cultivation with only a relatively low number of axenic cultures available to date. Here, we report the first axenic culture of an MTB isolated in the Southern Hemisphere (Itaipu Lagoon in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Cells of this new isolate are c...

background: acanthamoeba-related disease have a poor prognosis according to many previous studies. thus researches regarding biochemical and molecular aspects of this organism are a high priority. to this end achieving high amount of amoebae in culture is the first step for such studies. the main aim of the present research was to address the usage of tyi-s-33 (tripticase, yeast extract, iron-s...

The effectiveness of various physical and chemical methods for the removal of contaminants from the microalgae, Tetraselmis suecica, culture was investigated. The information obtained was used as the basis for the development of improved protocol for the preparation of axenic culture to be adapted to heterotrophic cultivation. Repeated centrifugation and rinsing effectively removed the free bac...

The pine wilt nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, has been cultured axenically in vitro on soy peptone/yeast extract or modified Caenorhabditis medium supplemented with cholesterol and hemoglobin. Although growth, development and reproduction were best in soy peptone/yeast extract medium, satisfactory population size increases were observed in the chemically defined Caenorhaditis medium.

A local strain of Entamoeba histolytica, the HTH-56: MUTM from a human liver abscess was successfully axenized. The culture was initially established monoxenically in Diamond's TYI-S-33 medium in the presence of Crithidia luciliae and maintained at 34 +/- 0.5 degrees C. After 5 passages it was adapted to axenic cultivation by addition of 0.02% Bacto agar in Diamond's TYI-S-33 medium in place of...

Completion of Tropheryma whipplei genome sequencing may provide insights into the evolution of the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenicity of this microorganism. The first postgenomic application was the successful design of a comprehensive culture medium that allows axenic growth of this bacterium, which is particularly recalcitrant to cultivation. This achievement in turn permitted ...

Harmful effects of contaminants on the ecosystem and humans can not be assessed by standard chemical analyses of environmental samples, therefore toxicity tests using live organisms or cells represent a vital part of environmental monitoring. Many different biological methods based on native or genetically modified microorganisms as test-species, have already successfully been applied to enviro...

BACKGROUND Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) has come to be seen as one of the most viable technologies to provide the negative carbon dioxide emissions needed to constrain global temperatures. In practice, algal biotechnology is the only form of BECCS that could be realized at scale without compromising food production. Current axenic algae cultivation systems lack robustness, ...