[Isolation and identification Alicyclobacillus from concentrated apple juice processing].

The forty-five strains of bacteria have been isolated from concentrated apple juice. All of them can grow at K agar (pH 4.0), but can't grow at LB palate (pH 7.0). By using heat resistance test, 38 strains of these bacteria could be classified into 3 groups according to their spore-forming time. 33 strains of them had the same spore-forming time as DSM 3922, which could produce spores within 48 h when cultivated at 45 degrees C; 3 strains of them could grow very fast and produced spores within 17 h; and 3 strains of them produced spores 48h later. Based on the results of 16S rDNA PCR-RFLP analysis, 7 strains of unknown, probably new species and 5 reference strains were selected for 19 phenotypic characteristics test and the result were analyses by UPGMA. The results of phenotypic characteristics test had good agreement with 16S rDNA PCR-RFLP analyses, that the 7 strains were different from all the 5 reference strains, they are new species of Alicyclobacillus.