Abstract:
:Microbial biodiversity provides an increasingly important source of medically and industrially useful compounds. We have isolated 14 actinomycete species from a collection of approximately 300 plant stem samples from the upper Amazonian rainforest in Peru. All of the cultured isolates produce substances with inhibitory activity directed at a range of potential fungal and bacterial pathogens. For some organisms, this activity is very broad in spectrum while other organisms show specific activity against a limited number of organisms. Two of these organisms preferentially inhibit bacterial test organisms over eukaryotic organisms. rDNA sequence analysis indicates that these organisms are not equivalent to any other cultured deposits in GenBank. Our results provide evidence of the untapped biodiversity in the form of biologically active microbes present within the tissues of higher plants.
journal_name
Microb Ecoljournal_title
Microbial ecologyauthors
Bascom-Slack CA,Ma C,Moore E,Babbs B,Fenn K,Greene JS,Hann BD,Keehner J,Kelley-Swift EG,Kembaiyan V,Lee SJ,Li P,Light DY,Lin EH,Schorn MA,Vekhter D,Boulanger LA,Hess WM,Vargas PN,Strobel GA,Strobel SAdoi
10.1007/s00248-009-9494-zsubject
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2009-08-01 00:00:00pages
374-83issue
2eissn
0095-3628issn
1432-184Xjournal_volume
58pub_type
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