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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A team of scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Mnchen, the Jlich Research Center, the Technical University of Munich and the Heinrich Heine University Dsseldorf has now shown that harmless purple bacteria of the genus Rhodobacter are capable of visualizing aspects of this heterogeneity in the tumors.
Germany : Inside a tumor: Purple bacteria visualize big eaters
"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.
Purple bacteria 'batteries' turn sewage into clean energy
Tabita, "The biochemistry and metabolic regulation of carbon metabolism and C[O.sub.2] fixation in purple bacteria," in Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria, R.
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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