- You will respond to the discussion below with a substantive comment of minimum 100, maximum 150 words about either positive or negative aspects of their organism, after you have read their main discussion.
- Again, you should provide student original writing, paraphrasing from credible sources, cite your source for this post with parenthetical in-text citations, and provide full end ref information in APA 7th Edition format.
- For the cellular organisms listed below, you need to start the first letter of the genus name with a capital letter and write all letters in the species name in lowercase letters and italicize both the genus and species names.
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Pseudomonas putida is a bacterium that typically survives in water and soil. It is a Gram-Negative, non- fermenting bacterium, rod shaped, saprotrophic soil bacterium and is commonly used in environmental studies because it can degrade many aliphatic and aromatic positive hydrocarbons. P. putida bacteria was first discovered in the mid 1900’s and is one of the most studied species of bacteria. P. putida is a commonbacterium that lives in fresh water and soil around the world with a small tail like structure called a flagellate to move around. Pseudomonas putida, which is considered a metabolically versatile rhizobacterium ideal for agriculture applications. P. putida is known to quickly colonize the rhizosphere of plants thus outcompeting plant pathogens (Zulueta-Rodriguez, et al, 2014). P. putida is widely used in agriculture to help break down or get rid of the harmful industrial made fertilizers and pesticides, that are unnatural and harmful to our environment. P. putida has been labeled a super bug that could break down almost any type of organisms except Teflon, Styrofoam, and organic products containing a single hydrogen molecule. Studies have shown, P. putida in root systems of plants can help can increase the overall health of a plant.
Not only is P. putida important in the aquacultural and environmental cleanup process, but it is also used in biotechnology and pharmacology. One possible finding for P. putida within the pharmacology is developing alternative therapies to treat infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria. This would be huge for the medical community as we do over treat people with antibiotics for most things that would normally subside over a few days to a week. Making humans more susceptible to diseases or infections. I believe that if P. putida is used correctly and under controlled uses it could be the world’s cleaner for humans’ mistakes and our constant use of harmful pollutants or accidents i.e., oil spills.
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Zulueta-Rodriguez, R., Cordoba-Matson, M. V., Hernandez-Montiel, L. G., Murillo-Amador, B., Rueda-Puente, E., & Lara, L. (2014). Effect of Pseudomonas putida on growth and anthocyanin pigment in two poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) cultivars. TheScientificWorldJournal, 2014, 810192. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/810192
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