Filamentous actinobacteria of the saline soils of arid territories

Abstract

A large number of actinomycetes (hundreds, thousands, and millions of CFU/g of soil) were isolated from saline soils in the territory of the landscapes of the Ber hillocks. A significantly smaller quantity of actinomycetes was isolated from the soda saline soils and sor saline soils that formed at the bottom of the ephemeral salty lakes in Buryatiya and in the estuary of the Syr-Darya River. Actinomycetes were represented in the studied soils by the Streptomyces, Micromonospora, Actinomadura, and Nocardiopsis genera. Among streptomycetes, the species of the Albus section and the Albus series predominated. The activity of the consumption of substrates by cultures of actinomycetes was largely influenced by conditions of preincubation. Obviously, the influence was related to the alteration in the metabolism of actinomycetes as one of the mechanisms of adaptation to the increased osmolarity of environment. The alcalotolerance, thermotolerance, and xerotolerance of halotolerant actinomycetes of the saline soils of arid territories were experimentally revealed.