FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2011, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (21): 207-209.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201121042

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Isolation and Identification of a High Exopolysaccharide-producing Strain from Biological Soil Crusts on Sand Dunes

WANG Zheng-rong1,2,SHENG Ji-ping1,TIAN Xiao-lei1,WU Ting-ting1,LIU Wan-zhen1,CHENG Fan-sheng1, JIAO Yu-cui1,SHEN Lin1,*   

  1. (1. College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China; 2. College of Food Science, Henan Institute of Science and Technology, Xinxiang 453003, China)
  • Online:2011-11-15 Published:2011-11-11

Abstract: Twenty-seven stains producing exopolysaccharides were isolated from biological soil crusts in the Gurbantunggut Desert, Xinjiang by the traditional method. A strain with 7445.80 mg/L exopolysaccharide-producing activity was picked out of them by phenol-sulfuric acid method and named as XJ-27. Based on phenotypic and physiological-chemical characterization, XJ-27 was primarily identified as Bacillus thuringiensis and further confirmed through 16S rDNA sequence analysis, resulting in a 1452 bp PCR amplification sequence, homology comparison with NCBI databases using the software Blast and phylogenetic tree construction using the software MEGA 4.0.

Key words: biological soil crusts, exopolysaccharides, identification, Bacillus thuringiensis

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