Growth of Iron(III)-Reducing Bacteria on Clay Minerals as the Sole Electron Acceptor and Comparison of Growth Yields on a Variety of Oxidized Iron Forms
Growth of Iron(III)-Reducing Bacteria on Clay Minerals as the Sole Electron Acceptor and Comparison of Growth Yields on a Variety of Oxidized Iron Forms
J. Kostka,D. Dalton,2 Authors,J. Stucki
2002 · DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.12.6256-6262.2002
Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 229 Citations
TLDR
It is demonstrated that a pure culture of Shewanella oneidensis strain MR-1 as well as enrichment cultures of Fe( III)-reducing bacteria from rice paddy soil and subsurface sediments are capable of conserving energy for growth with the structural Fe(III) bound in smectite clay as the sole electron acceptor.