BUTYRATE-DEGRADING SYNTROPHIC CULTURE FROM AN ANAEROBIC DIGESTER TREATING CATTLE WASTE

Authors
MEHER KK KADAM P RANADE DR
Citation
Kk. Meher et al., BUTYRATE-DEGRADING SYNTROPHIC CULTURE FROM AN ANAEROBIC DIGESTER TREATING CATTLE WASTE, World journal of microbiology & biotechnology, 12(1), 1996, pp. 105-106
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Biothechnology & Applied Migrobiology
Journal title
World journal of microbiology & biotechnology → ACNP
ISSN journal
09593993
Volume
12
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
105 - 106
Database
ISI
SICI code
0959-3993(1996)12:1<105:BSCFAA>2.0.ZU;2-W
Abstract
A co-culture of bacteria responsible for the conversion of butyrate to methane and CO2 was isolated from a cattle-waste treatment plant. The non-methanogenic partner of the co-culture was Syntrophomonas wolfei and the methanogenic partner was Methanobacterium formicicum. Although butyrate degradation occurred at pH < 6.0 and below 45 degrees C, met hanogenesis was observed at pH > 6.5 and above 40 degrees C.