However, in addition to the peak of methanol emission in the morning, Methylobacterium should adapt its metabolism to use additional carbon sources during the rest of the day when methanol emission is low or during the night when stomata are closed. These PPFMs are especially abundant in Rhizosphere but also found on leaves of field-grown crops averaged about 106 cfu of PPFMs per leaflet and typically >80% of the viable bacteria recovered from leaves were PPFMs (Omer et al., 2004). |
