Abstract
The authors previously isolated 12 kinds of soil bacteria which could metabolize benzoic acid or its derivatives and examined their metabolic activities. In the present experiment, the authors isolated further kinds of soil bacteria possessing metabolic activities different from the former 12. Comparative studies on the metabolism of these bacteria were made with benzoic, p-hydroxybenzoic, salicylic, m-hydroxybenzoic, anisic, piperonylic. p-nitrobenzoic, phenylacetic, cinnamic, o-coumaric and dl-mandelic acids. Some bacteria metabolized p-methoxycinnamic acid.
