Properties of a cellulolyticSporolactobacillusand some non‐sporing cellulolytic rods, presumptive clostridia, from an anaerobic digester

摘要

Anaerobic digesters contain a wide variety of anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria. Many of these are sporing rods. Some isolates from a mesophilic cattle waste anaerobic digester were classified asSporolactobacillusspp. A further group of bacteria could not be induced to sporulate. In some respects they resembledEubacterium, but considering all the properties it is suggested that they should be classified as a species ofClostridium.