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[Acidophilic soil actinomycetes]
Iu V Zakaliukina1, G M Zenova, D G Zviagintsev
1Faculty of Soil Science, Moscow State University, Vorob'evy gory, Moscow, 119899 Russia.
Mikrobiologiia
|July 26, 2002
Abstract:
A clear-cut dependence of the distribution of acidophilic actinomycetes on the pH value of soil was established. Acidophilic actinomycetes were found to be present in soils whose pH does not exceed 6.8 (acid forest soils, lowland peaty soil, and ordinary chernozem) and not in slightly alkaline soils (chestnut sodic and alluvial meadow soils). In the acid lowland peaty soil, the species diversity of acidophilic streptomycetes was lesser than the species diversity of streptomycetes revealed in the same soil by using neutral medium.