JOURNAL
OF CULTURE COLLECTIONS
Volume 5, 2006-2007,
pp. 78-84
DIVERSITY
OF BACILLUS GENOTYPES IN SOIL SAMPLES
FROM
EL-OMAYED
BIOSPHERE RESERVE IN
Eman
A. H. Mohamed1, Mikiko Abe2, Khaled M. Ghanem1,
Yasser R. Abdel-Fattah3,
Yasuyoshi Nakagawa4 and Ehab R. El-Helow1*
1Department
of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt;
2Department of
Chemistry and BioScience, Faculty of Science, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima
890-0065, Japan;
3Department of
Bioprocess Development, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research
Institute, Alexandria, Egypt;
4Biological Resource
Center, National Institute of Technology and Evaluation, Kisarazu 2920818,
Japan
*Corresponding author, e-mail: elhelow@link.net
Summary
Sequencing of the 16S rDNA
hypervariant region was applied to determine the presence and composition of Bacillus species in 40 soil samples randomly
collected from different habitats in El-Omayed biosphere reserve,
Key words: Bacillus amyloliquefaciens; Bacillus cereus; Bacillus thuringiensis; spore
formers; 16S rDNA