Bacillus boroniphilus

Bacillus boroniphilus is a species of highly boron-tolerant bacterium, hence its name. It is Gram-positive, motile, and rod-shaped, with type strain T-15ZT (DSM 17376T = IAM 15287T = ATCC BAA-1204T).[1] Its genome has been sequenced.[2]

Bacillus boroniphilus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Bacteria
Phylum:
Firmicutes
Class:
Bacilli
Order:
Bacillales
Family:
Bacillaceae
Genus:
Bacillus
Species:
B. boroniphilus
Binomial name
Bacillus boroniphilus
Ahmed et al. 2007

References
  1. Ahmed, Iftikhar; Yokota, Akira; Fujiwara, Toru (2006). "A novel highly boron tolerant bacterium, Bacillus boroniphilus sp. nov., isolated from soil, that requires boron for its growth". Extremophiles. 11 (2): 217–224. doi:10.1007/s00792-006-0027-0. ISSN 1431-0651. PMID 17072687.
  2. Col, B.; Ozkeserli, Z.; Kumar, D.; Ozdag, H.; Alakoc, Y. D. (2014). "Genome Sequence of the Boron-Tolerant and -Requiring Bacterium Bacillus boroniphilus". Genome Announcements. 2 (1): e00935–13–e00935–13. doi:10.1128/genomeA.00935-13. ISSN 2169-8287. PMC 3879602.

Further reading
  • Şen, Mustafa; Yılmaz, Ülkü; Baysal, Aslı; Akman, Süleyman; Çakar, Z. Petek (2011). "In vivo evolutionary engineering of a boron-resistant bacterium: Bacillus boroniphilus". Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. 99 (4): 825–835. doi:10.1007/s10482-011-9557-2. ISSN 0003-6072. PMID 21279440.


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