Cross Index Clavibacter
SuperSet Prokaryote, Eubacteria Irregular, Nonsporing Gram-Positive Rods
Compare Acetobacterium Acetogenium kivui, Actinomyces Aeromicrobium erythreum Agromyces ramosus Arachnia propionica, Arcanobacterium haemolyticum, Arthrobacter, Aureobacterium, Bifidobacterium, Brachybacterium faecium, Brevibacterium, Butyrivibrio, Caseobacter polymorphus, Cellulomonas ,Clavibacter, Coriobacterium glomerans, Corynebacterium, Curtobacterium, Dermobacter hominus, Eubacterium, Exigouibacterium aurantiacum, Falcivibrio, Gardnerella, Jonsia denitrificans, Lachnospira multiparus, Microbacterium, Mobiluncus, Pimelobacter, Proprionibacterium, Rarobacter faecitabidus , Rothia dentocariosa, Rubrobacter radiotolerans, Sphaerobacter thermophilus , Terrabacter tumescens, Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus, Thermoanaerobium brockii
Contrast Archaea
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Morphology Clavibacter
CELLULAR  
Staining Gram positive not acid fast
Morphology irregular slender straight or slightly curved rods that are predominantly arranged singly but often are arranged in pairs in a V configuration ans sometimes in palisades old cultures are not predominantly coccoid
Motility non motile
Specialized structures no spores
Division  
COLONIAL  
Solid surface some strains produce yellow or blue pigments
Liquid  

 

Growth Parameters Clavibacter
PHYSIOLOGICAL  
Tropism chemoorganotroph
Oxygen obligate aerobes
pH  
Temperature optimum 20-29 oC seldom grow above 35 oC
Requirements require nutritionally rich media and they grow slowly
Products respiratory metabolism produce weak acid from glucose and some other carbohydrates, indole negative
Enzymes catalase positive, oxidase negative, nitrate not reduced
Unique features  
ENVIRONMENTAL  
Habitat  
Lifestyle obligate parasites
Pathogenicity pathogenic for various flowering plants
Distribution  

 

Genome Clavibacter
G+C Mol %  
   

 

Reference Clavibacter
First citation Davis et al 1984 IJSB 34: 107-117
The Prokaryotes p
Bergey's Determinative p 575
References