| Morphology | Microbacterium |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram positive |
| Morphology | irregular rods with some coccoid forms In young cultures small slender irregular rods 0.4-0.8 microns by 1-4 microns or more in length, some of the rods are arranged at an angle to each other to give V formations. In older cultures, the rods are shorter and a proportion may be coccoid |
| Motility | may or may not be motile |
| Specialized structures | a marked rod-coccus growth cycle does not occur |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Microbacterium |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | |
| Oxygen | strict aerobe, a weak anaerobic growth may occur. Metabolism is mainly respiratory but may be fermentative |
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| Products | Acid is produced from glucose and some other sugars in peptone media |
| Enzymes | produces catalase |
| Unique features | does not contain mycolic acids. by. The cell wall peptidoglycan contains lysine as the diamino acid. The major isoprenoid quinones are unsaturatedmenaquinones with 11 and 12 isoprene units. |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
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| Genome | Microbacterium |
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| Reference | Microbacterium |
| First citation | Orla-Jensen,S. (1919) The lactic acid bacteria Copenhagen: Host and Son |
| The Prokaryotes | P |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 1320 M.D. Collins and R. M. Keddie |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 579 |
| References |