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A clear medium has been used to grow pur cultures of Nitrosomonas europaea in flasks and in a continuous culture apparatus.
Of several metallic ions examined in flask cultures of Nitrosomonas, Fe at 2 ppm and Co, Mn and Zn at 1 ppm were not toxic, Ni and Cr at concentrations greater than 0.25 ppm inhibited growth and Cu stopped growth completely at 0.5 ppm and inhibited at 0.1 ppm. Stainless steel of the specification EN58 B did not affect growth.
In the continuous culture vessel, Nitrosomonas showed a growth response to Fe only when the population exceeded about 500×106 organisms/ml. The minimum doubling time was about 8 hours in flasks and 11 hours in the culture vessel. With effective aeration and automatic PH control, cultures of Nitrosomonas were grown successfully in continuous culture and gave a yield of 2.14 g dry weight of bacteria from 30 litres of culture in 5 days.
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Skinner, F.A., Walker, N. Growth of Nitrosomonas europaea in batch and continuous culture. Archiv. Mikrobiol. 38, 339–349 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00408008
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00408008