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C O U N T I N G O F A Z O T O B A C T E R IN' S O I L S
by M. I. HUSSAIN ALEEM
Panjab Agricultural College & Research Institute, Lyallpur (Pakistan)
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C O U N T I N G OF A Z O T O B A C T E R IN SOILS 249
To verify these results, further counts were made on 0.1 and 0.2%
benzoate media. The results (Table III) show that:
1) media containing 0.1 and 0.2% sodium benzoate in most cases
gave nearly equal counts though in one case, the 0.1% medium gave
a rather higher count,
2) the colour of the colonies was slightly darker in the 0.2%
media.
TABLE I I I
SUMMARY
A n e w m e d i u m h a s b e e n e v o l v e d for c o u n t i n g A z o t o b a c t e r b y t h e p l a t i n g
m e t h o d . T h e a d v a n t a g e s of t h i s m e d i u m a r e :
1) c o n t a m i n a n t s a r e g r e a t l y s u p p r e s s e d ,
2) t h e colonies of A z o t o b a c t e r are b i g g e r i n size t h a n t h o s e of t h e con-
t a m i n a n t s a n d ; , b e i n g b l a c k i n c o l o u r a r e easily i d e n t i f i e d .
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