Blastochloris viridis is a bacterium from the genus Blastochloris which was isolated from water of the Dreisam river in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.Deutsche_Sammlung_von_Mikroorganismen_und_Zellkulturen
It is one of the lowest energy phototrophs on Earth, owing to its utilisation of bacteriochlorophyll b which yields an absorption maximum of 1015 nm when complexed with the reaction centre.
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External links Type strain of Blastochloris viridis at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase