ISSN: 0973-7510
E-ISSN: 2581-690X
Halophiles are organisms that can live in environments with salt. Tianjin has many saline-alkali soils, but the microbial composition have not yet been explored. In the present study, twelve bacterial strains with tolerance to salt were isolated from aline-alkali soil of Tianjin. The result showed that the two extreme halotolerants were gram-negative bacillus and could ferment using glucose and lactose. The result of methyl red test showed that these two strains were methyl-red-negative. This preliminary study showed that Tianjin saline-alkali soils are rich in halotolerant bacteria, which could be used in many industrial applications areas.
Halophile, Gram’s staining, sugar fermentation assay, methyl red test
© The Author(s) 2014. Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License which permits unrestricted use, sharing, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.