What are Alcaligene's?

Question

What are Alcaligene's?

Answer 1

Alcaligenes; species that has been used for the

industrial production of non-standard amino acids.

Answer 2

It is a gram-negative genus of bacteria, one well known example is the species Alcaligenes faecalis as it converts the most pathogenic strain of arsenic, arsenite, to its less dangerous form, arsenate.