• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.11-17
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• 1996

Photosynthetic bacteria, strains KN 1-1, KN 2-1 and KN 2-3 were isolated from nature, and were studied for swine wastewater treatment. Growth of those photosynthetic bacteria were increased to 2~3 fold in organic-acid added medium(sodium acetate 1g, sodium propionate 1g and sodium butyrate 1g in Lascelles basal medium $1{\ell}$) than cultivation in Lascelles basal medium, and amount of bacteriochlorophyll a were increased to 1.5~2 fold. Chemical Oxygen Demand(COD) in swine wastewater using photosynthetic bacteria, strains KN 1-1, KN 2-1 and KN 2-3 were reduced 80%, 89% and 75%, respectively.

• Journal of Marine Bioscience and Biotechnology
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.292-297
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• 2006

Lab-scale and pilot-scale productions of photosynthetic bacteria, that were able to efficiently treat wastewater from aquacultural farm, were experimented for their highly-pure culture. The results of experiments in a gas pack reactor, an anaerobic flask and a flask using $N_2$ gas as N-source showed that only photosynthetic bacteria formed red colonies on agar plate and their purity was over 90% in a colony, observed under a microscope. It was found that the basal medium could most promote the growth of photosynthetic bacteria, confirmed by experiments of serial cultures on various media. Under the culture conditions, the specific growth rate was found to be $0.18h^{-1}$ from the culture in 5L bioreactor and the same value could be obtained in pilot-scale production.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.365-373
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• 2011

Effective Microorganisms (EM), a fermented medium developed by Professor Higa at the University of the Ryukyus, is a mixed culture containing dozens of microorganisms which are beneficial to nature including people, animals, plants and many microbial species in environment. EM is known to contain more than 80 kinds of anaerobic or aerobic microbes including photosynthetic bacteria, lactic acid bacteria, yeast, actinomycetes, fungi and so on, with yeast, lactic acid bacteria and photosynthetic bacteria as the main species of EM. Antioxidant effect generated by the concert of complex coexistence and coprosperity among these microbes is considered to be the main source of EM benefits. Currently, EM is earning an increasing attention with applications in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries, environment and medicine among others. At the same time, however, a quantitative interpretation of EM system based on a mixed culture model needs efforts from biochemical engineers for efficient production and further promotion of EM. In this paper, we describe the functions of major microbes in EM and current researches and applications of EM in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fisheries, environment and medicine.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.27-33
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• 1996

Effect of effective microorganisms on the growth of plant (salvia sp.) was investigated. Microorganisms used were photosynthetic bacteria, lactic acid bacteria and yeasts. When photosynthetic bacteria were inoculated to soil by 100 dilution, treated plants showed 160% growth by length compared to control. When photosynthetic bacteria, lactic acid bacteria and yeasts were mixed, diluted by 10 and inoculated to soil, the plants showed 212% growth compared to control. Microbial populations were increased in the treated soil.

• Journal of Microbiology
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.205-212
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• 2007

Anoxygenic photosynthesis, performed primarily by anoxygenic photosynthetic bacteria (APB), has been supposed to arise on Earth more than 3 billion years ago. The long established APB are distributed in almost every corner where light can reach. However, the relationship between APB phylogeny and source environments has been largely unexplored. Here we retrieved the pufM sequences and related source information of 89 pufM containing species from the public database. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) most likely occurred within 11 out of a total 21 pufM subgroups, not only among species within the same class but also among species of different phyla or subphyla. A clear source environment feature related phylogenetic distribution pattern was observed, with all species from oxic habitats and those from anoxic habitats clustering into independent subgroups, respectively. HGT among ancient APB and subsequent long term evolution and adaptation to separated niches may have contributed to the coupling of environment and pufM phylogeny.

• The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.558-562
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• 2000

A strain of non-sulfur photosynthetic bacteria possessing large amount of ubiquinone-10 in the cell mass, was isolated from waste water collected from the Nakdong River. It was identified as Rhodobacter sp. N-2 by a series of studies on its morphological. cultural and physiological characteristics. The organism appeared to got higher cell mass under circumstances of anaerobic growth conditions than under photosynthetic aerobic cultures. Biotin and thiamin and niacin could be used as good growth factors.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.561-566
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• 1997

Screening, Identification and some cultural characteristics of ALA$({\delta}-aminolevulinic\;acid)$-producing photosynthetic bacteria were carried out for the optimal production of ALA, one of the bioherbicides. Among photosynthetic bacteria isolated from soil, marsh, pond, etc., KK-10 was the best producer of ALA and identified to be Rhodobacter capsulatus belonging to a typical group of nonsulfur purple bacteria. By addition of 15 mM LA (levulinic acid), an inhibitor of ALA dehydrase in cyclic tetrapyrrole biosynthesis, into culture broth at middle log phase of cell growths, ALA production was considerably increased to about 20-fold (28 mg/l). The combined supplementation of glycine and succinate, each with a concentration of 30 mM also enhanced production of ALA and activity of ALA synthase to about 50-fold (73 mg/l) and 2-fold, respectively. The isolated strain was able to produce upto 80 mg/l under the cultural condition optimized by addition 15 mM LA into the synthetic medium at four different points starting middle log phase.

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2002.05b
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• pp.450-451
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• 2002

미래산업의 중요한 자원인 광합성세균(purple non-sulfur photosynthetic bacteria)은 해양에 대한 연구정도가 미비하기 때문에 이 연구를 수행하였다. 현재 총 47개의 mud 시료중에서 15개의 광합성세균으로 추정되는 strain을 분리하였다. 이후의 실험은 RAPD PCR을 이용하여 중복되는 strain의 유무를 확인하고, 165 rDNA의 염기분석을 통하여 분류학적인 위치를 연구할 계획이다.

• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.495-500
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• 1992

Photosynthetic bacteria which can utilize ferulate as a sole carbon source for their metabolic activities were isolated from soils by liquid enrichment culture technique. The strain P-1 was selected by the highest capability of degrading ferulate in aerobic and anaerobic conditions. The strain P-1 was rod-shaped with its motility, strained gram negatively and could not utilize sulfur compounds. This strain has the bacteriochlorophyll a group I carotenoid and membrane structures like lamellae. As the results of physiological, morphological and cultural charactderistics, the isolate was identified as Rhodopseudomonas plaustris, one of the purple nonsulfer bacteria. The strain P-1 utilized 2mM/day in aerobic condition and 0.86 mM/day in anaerobic condition.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.17-23
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• 2015

In this research, the $CO_2$ absorption performance of mortar was investigated. The level of $CO_2$ absorption in mortar with various binders including cement and nonsintered cement was examined. As a result for the mortar with photosynthetic bacteria, the compressive strength was similar to the one without the bacteria at early age but decreased at the age of 28 days. However, for the $CO_2$ absorption, with photosynthetic, the performance of the mortar with OPC, and nonsintered cement deceased to 21%(234 ppm) and 19.7%(243 ppm) respectively after 12 hours age.