Gracilibacillus boraciitolerans sp. nov., a highly boron-tolerant and moderately halotolerant bacterium isolated from soil, by I. Ahmed, A. Yokota and T. Fujiwara
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology vol. 57, part 4, pp. 796 - 802
Supplementary Fig. S1. Scanning electron micrographs of cells of strain T-16XT grown on BUG agar medium (Biolog) containing 20 mM boron and 1 % NaCl for 6 days.
Supplementary Fig. S2. Growth curves for strain T-16XT (a) and Escherichia coli DH10B (b) grown at different levels of boron supply.
Supplementary Fig. S3. Phylogenetic trees showing the interrelationships of strain T-16XT and closely related species inferred from 16S rRNA gene sequences, constructed using the parsimony method (a) and maximum-likelihood method (b).
Supplementary Fig. S4. Polar lipid profile of strain T-16XT analysed using two-dimensional TLC.
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