What is oil-eating bacteria?

http://www.epa.gov/tio/download/citizens/bioremediation.pdf

• bugs/microbes that like to eat gasoline or other harmful harmful chemicals
• when completely digested harmful substances change into water or other harmless gases
• in short use of living organisms to degrade wastes

http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/libweb/curriculum/do/document?set=search&groupid=1&requestid=lib_standard&resultid=1&edition=&ts=7660ED3E5C92D99479DD10107C8F4B83_1196899076970&start=1&urn=urn%3Abigchalk%3AUS%3BBCLib%3Bdocument%3B127479240/retry=a0db9a9f4c7af5a09031

• in soil and water
• relied on to destroy waste products from human domestic, agricultural, and industrial activities by converting them to carbon dioxide, water, and additional microbial biomass
• found wherever there is food source,
• gram stain
• pseudomonas putida is the scientific name
• rod shaped
• used as soil inoculant to remedy naphthalene contaminated soils
• demonstrated potential biocontrol properties, as an effective antagonist of damping off diseases such as Pythium and Fusarium
• Sources
• cellular organisms
• Bacteria
• Proteobacteria
• Gammaproteobacteria
• Pseudomonadales
• Pseudomonadaceae
• Pseudomonas

http://beta.uniprot.org/taxonomy/136845

• Gram-negative
• Rod-shaped
• Non-spore forming
• Typically motile with one or more polar flagella
• Aerobic metabolism
• Able to grow on a wide variety of organic substrates

http://www.microbiologybytes.com/video/Pputida.html

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