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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2005, p. 8402-8410, Vol. 71, No. 12
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.12.8402-8410.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Detection and Cultivation of Soil Verrucomicrobia

Parveen Sangwan, Suzana Kovac,{dagger} Kathryn E. R. Davis, Michelle Sait, and Peter H. Janssen*

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia

Received 21 June 2005/ Accepted 6 September 2005

Only one isolate each of the class "Spartobacteria" (subdivision 2 of the phylum Verrucomicrobia) and of subdivision 3 of Verrucomicrobia have previously been reported to grow in laboratory culture. Using media that had been used successfully in other studies to isolate members of diverse groups of soil bacteria, we generated a collection of over 1,200 isolates from soil from a pasture. An oligonucleotide probe that targets the 16S rRNA genes of verrucomicrobia was used to screen this collection, and 14 new verrucomicrobia were identified. Nine of these belonged to the class "Spartobacteria" and were related to "Chthoniobacter flavus." Five further isolates were members of subdivision 3 and were related to the only known isolate of this subdivision. The differences in the 16S rRNA gene sequences of the new isolates and previously described isolates, of up to 10%, indicated that the new isolates represent new species and genera. All but two of the verrucomicrobial isolates were from colonies that first became visible one or more months after inoculation of plates with soil, but subcultures grew more rapidly. Analysis of PCR-amplified 16S rRNA genes in the pasture soil showed that members of the class "Spartobacteria" were more numerous than members of subdivision 3. Isolates of subdivision 3 were only found on plates receiving an inoculum that yielded a mean of 29 colonies per plate, while members of the class "Spartobacteria" were only found on plates receiving a more dilute inoculum that resulted in a mean of five colonies per plate. This suggested that colony development by members of the class "Spartobacteria" was inhibited by other culturable bacteria.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia. Phone: 61(3)8344-5706. Fax: 61(3)9347-1540. E-mail: pjanssen{at}unimelb.edu.au.

{dagger} Present address: Department of Surgery, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria 3084, Australia.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2005, p. 8402-8410, Vol. 71, No. 12
0099-2240/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.71.12.8402-8410.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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