• Korean Journal of Microbiology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.47-52
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• 1992

This study describes isolation and identification of a soil bacterium which is degradable of phosphinothricin and improvement of the isolated strain by using mutagenesis and spheroplast fusion. The experiment was performed to search for a possibility of development of a new strain which is both PPT-degradable and glyphosate-resistant by using interspecies cell fusion between the PPT-degrading bacterium. Pseudornonu.\ puucimohlis and a glyphosate -resistant strain, Pseudornonu.~ cc,pucicl. Auxotrophic mutants were obtained by the treatement of P. puucimohili.\ with ethylmethanosulfate, and used to cell fusion. Lysozyme and EDTA were used to spheroplast formation and regeneration rates :)f the spheroplast were 6.5'%1 in P. pauc.irnohili.\ and 8.8% in P.ci,j~u[,i(lr, espctively. Polyethylenglycol 5.000 was used to cell fusion as fusogen. The fusant\ulcorner F1. F2. F\ulcorner and F4 werc- obtained by the intra- and interspecies cell fusion. The fusant Fl of intraspecies cell fusion was higher to the wild type by 1 I'%l in PPT degrading ability, and the fusant F3 of inierspesis cell fusion developed plyphosatc-resistant and PPI-dcgrading ability which were propertics of two parental strains.