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This contribution deals with problems associated with the culture of a thermotolerant methylotrophic Bacillus sp. The results reported clearly demonstrate why conventional enrichment/isolation procedures have, in the past, failed to allow such microbes to assert themselves. The catastrophic effect of carbon substrate (methanol) exhaustion on such cultures is clearly evidenced, but the effects of other nutrient exhaustion or limitations are demonstrated to be markedly less stringent. The failure of such cultures to complete the sporulation process when growing on methanol has important consequences with respect to their survival characteristics.
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Al-Awadhi, N., Egli, T. & Hamer, G. Growth characteristics of a thermotolerant methylotrophic Bacillus sp. (NCIB 12522) in batch culture. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 29, 485–493 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00269073
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