Selection and Characterization Of Bacterial Isolated For Monocyclic Aromatic Degradation

Abstract

A number of anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria (APB) were isolated from Moluccas, Central Kalimantan, West Kalimantan, West Java, and Yogyakana. Approximately, 65.8% of the APB isolates were able to utilize benzoate as their sole carbon source when grow photosynthetically. The ability of these bacteria to grow in gentisate was firstly reported. No growth was demonstrated in the presence of phenol, cathecol and salysilate as sole carbon sources. In addition, we also isolated five aerobic bacterial isolates that could grow at least in three different monocyclic aromatic compounds. One of the aerobic isolates could grow in atrazine.