Clostridium Storage

This was previously used as a herbicide, and attention has been directed to its degradation in storage areas or where it has been spilled. A strain of Clostridium bifermentans KMR-1 (that is protected by a U.S. patent) was unable to use dinoseb as carbon or energy source. In the presence of a starch extract, however, a low level of transformation was observed, and the products could subsequently be mineralized by aerobic bacteria (Hammill and Crawford 1996). These observations have been extended to the remediation of soil slurries from a contaminated site by adding phosphate and starch waste that achieved anaerobic conditions, and inoculation with a culture from a pilot-scale... 

R. K. Thauer and P. Schonbeit, Iron-Sulfur Complexes of Ferredoxin as a Storage Form of Iron in Clostridium pasteurianum, in Tron-Sulfur Proteins , ed. T. G. Spiro, Wiley, New York, 1982, p. 329. 

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