Endospore-forming Soil Bacteria
Aerobic endospore-forming bacteria are found in soils of all kinds, ranging from acid to alkaline, hot to cold, and fertile to desert. It is well known that endospores confer special properties upon their owners and play dominant parts in their life cycle
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Series Editor Ajit Varma, Amity Institute of Microbial Technology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Noida, UP, India For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/5138
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Niall A. Logan
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Paul De Vos
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Endospore-forming Soil Bacteria
Editors Prof. Niall A. Logan Dept. Biological & Biomedical Sciences Glasgow Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road Glasgow G4 0BA United Kingdom [email protected]
Prof. Paul De Vos Lab. Microbiology University of Gent K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35 9000 Gent Belgium [email protected]
ISSN 1613-3382 ISBN 978-3-642-19576-1 e-ISBN 978-3-642-19577-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-19577-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011931521 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: deblik, Berlin Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
This book is dedicated to the memory of Roger C. W. Berkeley (1937–2010), who made important contributions to the study of the aerobic endospore-formers
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Preface
This book was conceived following the completion of Microbiology of Extreme Soils in this Soil Biology series. That volume was characterized by the remarkable diversity of the microorganisms it considered, and by the wide range of extreme soil environments that they inhabited. As bacteriologists with a special interest in the taxonomy of Bacillus and its relatives, this set us thinking that, while soils are generally considered to be the main habitats of the aerobic endospore-formers, our understanding of their behaviour in soil environments seems to be greatly outweighed by our knowledge of individual species as studied, exploited, or combated by human activities. Most laboratory-based studies of the properties and behaviour of aerobic endospore-forming bacteria have been in-depth studies of single species or strains – especially Bacillus subtilis, which is the most extensively studied Grampositive bacterium and probably the best understood prokaryote after Escherichia coli – and it seems that the diversities of these various organisms’ habitats and natural existences have often been given scant attention by investigators. While a small number
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