It has also been shown to harbor a selenium-metabolizing Bacillus species in its seed pods.
Bacillus was later amended by Ferdinand Cohn to further describe them as spore-forming, Gram-positive, aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria.
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The species was described by de Bary in 1884, who called it Bacillus megaterium, but did not give an etymology.
Filippo Pacini (25 May 1812 – 9 July 1883) was an Italian anatomist, posthumously famous for isolating the cholera bacillus Vibrio cholerae in 1854, well before Robert Koch's more widely accepted discoveries thirty years later.
They remain solid, as very few bacteria are able to decompose agar (the exceptions being those in the following genera: Cytophaga, Flavobacterium, Bacillus, Pseudomonas, and Alcaligenes).
He and a Detroit colleague published two papers on studies with the bacterium Mycobacterium smegmatis, a fast-growing and non-pathogenic bacillus with similar physical properties to the tuberculosis bacillus.
Ram gene is a rare gene, it is found in very few microorganisms like some Bacillus species and mainly naringin is hydrolysed by the Aspergillus niger, but production of naringinase from the fungus is a difficult task as the growing rate is much slower for fungi than the bacteria.
Furthermore, Dr. Ferguson was a pioneer in long-term BCG (Bacillus Calmette Guėrin) research, quite controversial at the time.