National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Halophilic organisms are found in habitats with a high concentration of salt (mainly NaCl) such as the Great Salt Lake, Utah; Owens Lake, California; the Dead Sea, soda lakes such as Lake Magadii, Kenya and Sambhar Salt Lake, India; marine salterns across the globe, etc. Organisms living in such habitat require high salt concentration (5-25% NaCl) and/or alkaline pH for growth. Algae, archaea, purple and green sulfur bacteria are the dominant microflora of these extreme habitat. Samples were collected from Sambhar Lake and microbial diversity was examined by cultivating halophilic organisms in Winogradsky Column. Successive changes in the column lead to changes in diversity also. Here we report on microbial diversity based on photomicrography and t-RFLP method. This is the first report on the use of Winogradsky column technique for enrichment and study the microbial diversity of Sambhar Salt Lake.
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