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Isolation and characterization of nickel-resistant microflora from serpentine soils of Andaman

Serpentine soils of Andaman Islands, India characteristically contain high levels of nickel, cobalt and chromium and are colonized by indigenous nickel-hyperaccumulating plants. Attempts have been made to isolate and characterize nickel-resistant microorganisms from these hitherto unexplored naturally nickel-percolated soils. The majority of the nickel-resistant organisms showed a minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of Ni²⁺ ranging from 300 to 400 mg/l and about 3.4% of the total 89 isolates representing bacterial strains were able to grow at 400 mg/l Ni²⁺. The potent Ni²⁺-resistant strains AND305 and AND603 were tentatively identified as Pseudomonas spp. and strain AND408 as Bacillus sp. following detailed analysis of morphological and physio-biochemical characteristics. Growth kinetics of these Ni²⁺-resistant bacteria showed a prolonged lag phase in Ni²⁺-containing media, which extended with increasing nickel concentration. In addition to Ni²⁺, these isolates were also resistant to Co²⁺, Cd²⁺, Cr⁶⁺, Fe³⁺, Cu²⁺, Mg²⁺, Mn²⁺(50–200 mg/l) and Hg²⁺ (0.5–2.0 mg/l) and the multiple metal-resistance of the isolates were also associated with the resistance to antibiotics ampicillin, cycloserine and penicillin G.

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1. Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, 700 019, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, India

   Arundhati Pal, Paramita Choudhuri & A. K. Paul

2. Taxonomy Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, 700 019, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata, India

   Suman Dutta & P. K. Mukherjee

1. Arundhati Pal
2. Paramita Choudhuri
3. Suman Dutta
4. P. K. Mukherjee
5. A. K. Paul

Correspondence to A. K. Paul.

Pal, A., Choudhuri, P., Dutta, S. et al. Isolation and characterization of nickel-resistant microflora from serpentine soils of Andaman. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 20, 881–886 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-004-2776-1

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• Received: 05 November 2003

• Accepted: 07 June 2004

• Issue Date: December 2004

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11274-004-2776-1

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