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Plastic Encapsulation of Stabilized Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas putida |
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| Authors: | M. Manzanera S. Vilchez A. Tunnacliffe |
| Abstract: | Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas putida dried in hydroxyectoine or trehalose are shown to be highly resistant to the organic solvents chloroform and acetone, and consequently, they can be encapsulated in a viable form in solid plastic materials. Bacteria are recovered by rehydration after physical disruption of the plastic. P. putida incorporated into a plastic coating of maize seeds was shown to colonize roots efficiently after germination. |
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