Bacillus subtilis

Bacillus subtilis is a gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium crucial to various commercial enzyme production, making up about 60% of available enzymes. It is a well-studied model organism in microbiology, capable of forming multicellular structures like biofilms and resilient to extreme environments. B. subtilis has significant genetic diversity, with a genome of over 4 million base pairs, and is used in agriculture and medicine for its immunostimulatory properties.