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Azotobacter are usually motile, oval, or spherical bacteria, form thick-walled cysts, and may produce large quantities of capsular slime. Beyond Azotobacter’s use as a model it has biotechnological applications. Examples are its use for alginate production and for nitrogen production in batch fermentations 1,2. Azotobacter are gram-negative bacteria.
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- Note 1: Clementi F. 1997. Alginate production by Azotobacter vinelandii.
- Crit Rev Biotechnol. 17(4):327-61
- Note 2: Dixon R and Kahn D. 2004. Genetic regulation of biological nitrogen fixation. Nat Rev Microbiol. 2(8):621-31.[1] (pdf, 463kb)
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