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Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) widely distributed in nature and play an important role in much food fermentations. Bacterial cell
morphology is useful and valuable characteristics used in the identification of any organism in order to classify. Therefore, cell
morphological shape and size of four strains of rod LAB grown in two different media (MRS and RSM) were studied using Scanning
Electron Microscope (SEM) and image analysis technique. Topographical images reveal rectangular shapes with smooth corners and
height profiles and variation in size which occurred singly or in pairs or chains. Rod cells had a wide range of breadth (0.40-1.07 �¼m)
with cells' perimeters of 4.64 up to 11.7 �¼m and the elongation varies between 0.572 and 0.790 �¼m. Both areas of Lb. helveticus 764N
and Lb. casei 761N were reduced when grown in RSM than in broth medium. On the contrary, cells' areas of Lb. acidophilus 791N and
Lb. paracasei 72MP increased when grown in RSM than in broth medium. RSM lowered the compression on cells walls either by the
adsorbed water to the surface of the cells or by extra nutrients provides. All the aseptic ratios measured were higher than 1. Rod cells
had a different orientation angles and surfaces seem to have heights or extrudes with external boundary was either a sharp outline or
a rough surface. Cells hardness and wall thickness affected negatively or positively depending on the strain and growing medium. In
conclusion, image analysis of SEM could be a good and accurate tool for measuring many morphology, shape and size parameters for
the viable bacterial cells which can be used for identification and classification of rod LAB with determination of defined standard
conditions for optimum growth.
Biography
Hoda M Elzeini has completed her PhD from Michigan State University, USA. She is a Professor in Cairo University, Dairy Science Department of Faculty of Agriculture in Egypt. She has published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a Reviewer for some journals. She is teaching dairy technology and food rheology courses. She was trained in England and India to use advance rheological apparatuses.