| Planomonospora |
| Morphology | Planomonospora |
| CELLULAR |
| Staining | Gram positive and not acid fast |
| Morphology | Substrate and aerial mycelia develop on various agar media. Substrate hyphae (0.6-1.0 um in diameter) are irregularly branched, occasionally septate, and nonfragmenting. Aerial hyphae (0.5-1.0 um in diameter) are sparsely branched and rarely septate.. Cylindrical to clavate sporangia (1.0-1.5 um wide x 3.5-5.5 um long), each containing a single spore, are formed only on the aerial mycelium. |
| Motility | The spores (zoospores) are fusiform and motile by peritrichous flagella. |
| Specialized structures |
| Division |
| COLONIAL |
| Solid surface | Colonies grown on complex agar media are raised or flat with rugose or smooth surface. The colour of substrate mycelium is either rose to light orange or brown-violet to light brown. The aerial mycelium is white with a rose tinge or grayish white. |
| Liquid |
| Growth Parameters | Planomonospora |
| PHYSIOLOGICAL |
| Tropism | chemoorganotrophic |
| Oxygen | Aerobic |
| pH | pH from 7.0-8.0. |
| Temperature | mesophilic grows well between 28` and 37`C |
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| Enzymes | |
| Unique features | The peptidoglycan of the cell walls contains meso- diaminopimelic acid (meso-DAP), and madurose is the characteristic sugar of whole-cell hydrolysates |
| ENVIRONMENTAL |
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| Lifestyle | |
| Pathogenicity |
| Distribution |
| Genome | Planomonospora |
| G+C Mol % | 72. (Tm) |
| Reference | Planomonospora |
| First citation | Thiemann, J.E., H. Pagani and G.Beretta 1967. A new genus of Actinoplanaceae: Planomonospora, gen. nov. G. Microbiol 15:27-38 |
| The Prokaryotes | |
| Bergey's Systematatic | p 2539 Gernot Vobis |
| Bergey's Determinative | p 678 |
| References |