Cross Index	Phyllobacterium
SuperSet	Prokaryote, Eubacteria Gram-Negative Aerobic/ Microaerophilic Rods and Cocci
Compare	Acetobacter, Acidiphilium, Acidomonas methanolica, Acidothermus cellulolyticus, Acidovorax, Acinetobacter, Afipia, Agrobacterium, Agromonas oligotrophica, Alcaligenes, Alteromonas, Aminobacter, Aquaspirillum, Azomonas, Azorhizobium caulinodans, Azotobacter, Bacteroides, Beijerinckia, Bordetella, Bradyrhizobium japonicum, Brucella, Chromohalobacter marismortui, Chryseomonas luteola, Comamonas, Cupriavidus necator, Deleya, Derxia gummosa, Ensifer adherans, Erythrobacter longus, Flavimonas oryzihabitans, Flavobacterium, Francisella, Frateuria aurantica, Gluconobacter, Halomonas, Hydrogenophaga, Janthinobacterium lividum, Kingella, Lampropedia hyalina, Legionella, Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus, Marinomonas, Mesophilobacter marinus, Methylobacillus glycogenes, Methylobacterium, Methylococcus, Methylomonas, Methylophaga, Methylophilus, Methylovorus glucosotrophus, Moraxella, Morococcus cerebrosus, Neisseriaceae, Neisseria, Oceanospirillum, Ochrobactrum anthropi, Oligella, Paracoccus, Phenylobacterium immobile, Phyllobacterium, Pseudomonas, Psychrobacter immobilis, Rhizobacter daucus, Rhizobium, Rhizomonas suberifaciens, Rochalimaea, Roseobacter, Rugomonas rubra, Serpens, Sinorhizobium, Sphingobacterium, Taylorella equigenitalis, Thermoleophilum, Thermomicrobium, Thermus, Variovorax paradoxus, Volcaniella eurhalina, Weeksella, Wolinella, Xanthobacter, Xanthomonas, Xyella fastidiosa, Xylophilus ampelinus, Zoogloea ramigera
Contrast	Archaea
Subset

 

Morphology

Phyllobacterium

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram-negative
Morphology	Straight rods (in vitro), 0.4-0.8 um in diameter and 0.8-2.0 um in length..
Motility	Motile by a single polar flagellum or several polar or lateral flagella of long wavelength
Specialized structures

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Colonies on glucose-yeast extract agar are translucent, colourless or beige coloured, and slimy.

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Phyllobacterium

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism	Chemoorganotrophic, using a variety of sugars or salts of organic acids as carbon sources
Oxygen	Aerobic, having a strictly respiratory type of metabolism with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor
pH
Temperature	Optimum temperature, 28-34
Requirements	Do not hydrolyze starch, pectin or cellulose
Products
Enzymes	Oxidase-positive
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	occur in leaf nodules of higher plants (species of Myrsinaceae (myrsine) and Rubiaceae (madder)).
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity

Distribution

 

Genome

Phyllobacterium

G+C Mol %

59.6-61.3 (T2m).

 

Reference

Phyllobacterium

First citation	Knosel, D. (1962) Prufung von Bakterien auf Fahigkeit zur Sternbildung. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. Parasirtenkd. Infektionskr. Hyg. II Abt 116:79-100
The Prokaryotes	P
Bergey's Systematatic	p 254 D. H. Knosel
Bergey's Determinative	p 93

References