Salkowski's Reagent Test as a Primary Screening Index for Functionalities of Rhizobacteria Isolated from Wild Dipterocarp Saplings Growing Naturally on Medium-Strongly Acidic Tropical Peat Soil

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  • RAHMAN Atiqur
    Division of Applied Bioscience, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University
  • SITEPU Irnayuli R.
    Forest Microbiology Laboratory, Forest and Nature Conservation Research and Development Center, Forest Research and Development Agency
  • TANG Sui-Yan
    Division of Applied Bioscience, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University
  • HASHIDOKO Yasuyuki
    Division of Applied Bioscience, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University

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Rhizobacteria isolated from wild dipterocarp saplings in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, were subjected to Salkowski’s reagent test, which is often used in detecting indolic substances. Among 69 isolates grown in a low-nitrogen medium supplemented with L-tryptophan (TRP), culture fluids of 29 strains were positive to the test, in which 17 bacteria turned red and other 10 pink. All the red type rhizobacteria actively converted TRP into tryptophol (TOL), while some yielded indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) with TOL production. They also showed a capacity to decompose gallotannin into pyrogallol via gallic acid. On the other hand, an active IAA-producing Serratia sp. CK67, and three Fe-solubilizing Burkholderia spp. CK28, CK43, and Citrobacter sp. CK42, were all involved in pink type rhizobacteria, which were more effective, oxidative TRP-degraders than the red type rhizobacteria. Thus, Salkowski’s reagent test should be a useful primary index in the screening of functional rhizobacteria in peatland ecosystem.

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