Article: Investigators at Shandong University release new data on applied microbiology.

Researchers in Jinan, People's Republic of China conducted a study "To isolate and characterize bacteria capable of degrading nicotine from the rhizospheric soil of a tobacco plant and to use them to degrade the nicotine in tobacco solid waste. A bacterium, strain S33, was newly isolated from the rhizospheric soil of a tobacco plant, and identified as Agrobacterium sp. based on morphology, physiological tests, Biolog MicroLog3 4 center dot 20 system and 16S rRNA gene sequence."

"Using nicotine as the sole source of carbon and nitrogen in the medium, it grew optimally with 1 center dot 0 g l(-1) of nicotine at 30 degrees C and pH 7 center dot 0, and nicotine was ...

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