NEW MICROORGANISM HAVING HEXAVALENT CHROMIUM-REDUCING ABILITY AND METHOD FOR CLEANING ENVIRONMENT THEREWITH

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new microorganism which has an excellent hexavalent chromium-reducing ability and is suitable for the bioremediation of environments containing the hexavalent chromium, to provide a method for reducing the hexavalent chromium, and to provide a method for cleaning an environment.;SOLUTION: This microorganism belongs to Actinomycetales, has a 16S rDNA containing a ≥96% homogeneous base sequence to the base sequence of a specific sequence, and has an ability for reducing hexavalent chromium. The microorganism is a new actinomyces ST13 strain deposited as Accession Number FERM P-20563.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT