Laboratory manual of general microbiology, with special reference to the microorganisms of the soil
Year: 1928
Type: book
Abstract: This laboratory manual has been designed for students in General Microbiology, and especially for those working with soils or with organisms isolated from the soil.Although various exercises are described primarily for students in soils, the methods of isolation and cultivation of bacteria, fungi, actinomyces, algae and protozoa, and the determination of the biochemical activities of these organisms can be used by the student in General and Agricultural Microbiology.Special attention has been paid to the physiology of microorganisms, including the various so-called fermentation processes, in an attempt to bring out not only the qualitative but also the quantitative relation- ships of the various organisms.It is assumed that the student has had previous training in general botany, zoology, bacteriology and chemistry; a knowledge of organic and physical chemistry, of mycology, and of proto- zoology will prove of great assistance in carrying out the experi- ments and in understanding the results.Out of the numerous media suggested for the cultivation of non-pathogenic organisms, the authors selected the simplest, preferably the synthetic inorganic media, and those that have been found to be most useful.It is impossible to give all the chemical methods of analysis employed in microbiological investigations.Only a few of the most essential methods, dealing largely with the transformations of carbon and nitrogen, and to a less extent of phosphorus and sulphur, have been described.In addition to references given in the text, frequent use has been made of the various nianuals in bacteriology, a list of which is appended.
Source: McGraw-Hill Book Company
Authors: Edwin Broun Fred, Selman A. Waksman
Language: English
Subfield: Ecology
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2491350875