purple bacteria


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Noun1.purple bacteria - free-living Gram-negative pink to purplish-brown bacteria containing bacteriochlorophyll
phototrophic bacteria, phototropic bacteria - green and purple bacteria; energy for growth is derived from sunlight; carbon is derived from carbon dioxide or organic carbon
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"Our group manipulates these conditions to tune the metabolism of purple bacteria to different applications, depending on the organic waste source and market requirements," says co-author Professor Abraham Esteve-Nunez of University of Alcala, Spain.
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Arsenic-Redox Transformation and Plant Growth Promotion by Purple Nonsulfur Bacteria Rhodopseudomonas palustris CS2 and Rhodopseudomonas faecalis SS5
and Matsumot, S, Characteristics of Phototrophic Purple Bacteria isolated from a Japanese paddy soil.
Detection and quantification of plant growth hormones by high power liquid chromatography from purple non sulphur bacterial isolates

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