Abstract

During the first stage of the preparation of mushroom compost oxygen is believed to be readily available. However we measured methane in the evoking air above the compost piles and were able to isolate thermophilic methanogenic bacteria from this compost. The isolates grow only on H 2 and CO 2 as energy and carbon source and do not require complex factors for growth. On the basis of nutritional and morphological characteristics these methanogens were identified as strains of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum.

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