2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Biological methane formation in deep subsurface environments

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22654066
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Geochemistry/Astrochemistry
Research Institution	National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Principal Investigator	KAMAGATA Yoichi 独立行政法人産業技術総合研究所, 生物プロセス研究部門, 研究部門長 (70356814)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	メタン生成古細菌 / 深部地下圏 / 高圧培養 / 共生微生物 / メタンハイドレート
Research Abstract	Methane is known to be a storage gas in deep subsurface environments. Controversy over biological methanogenesis under subsurface environments still remains unsolved. We cultivated 1) Methanothermobacter thermautotrophics in pure culture using formate as

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