Pseudomonas Denitrificans

Detailed Product Description
The bacterium Pseudomonas denitrificans produces Vitamin B12 in great quantities.
In fact, under the appropriate conditions 60 milligrams of the vitamin can be produced per liter of these bacteria.
Often the bacteria are grown in sugar-beet molasses over 4 days for this process to occur.
These prokaryotes possess a coccoid or circular shape.
They grow in the presence of oxygen or aerobically.
Their food comes in the form of reduced sulfur compounds, and P. denitrificans can be classified as autotrophs or organisms that can use carbon dioxide as a direct carbon source.
This microbe can be found in soil and water, its ideal habitat.

They possess the so-called denitrifying enzyme, nitrate reductase.

In their process of nitrate respiration, the terminal electron acceptor of the bacterium is nitrate and reduced nitrogen containing compounds are formed like N2, N2O, and NO2-.

Therefore, this microbe also plays a role in the nitrogen cycle by releasing nitrogen back into the atmosphere to be fixed for plants by other microbes.

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