Review Article
Violacein: Properties and Production of a Versatile Bacterial Pigment
Table 1
Some violacein-producing strains and the locales from which they were isolated.
| Strain | Locale | Reference |
| Chromobacterium violaceum | River Waste water treatment plant | [14] [21] | Collimonas sp. | Arctic coastal waters | [1] | Duganella sp. | Agricultural soils (olive) | [10] | D. violaceinigra | Forest soils | [22] | Janthinobacterium lividum | Glacier | [4] | J. svalbardensis | Glacier | [11] | Pseudoalteromonas sp. | Deep sea waters (320 m) | [23] | P. luteoviolacea | Sea sponge surface | [7] |
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