Cross Index	Xyella fastidiosa
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

 

Morphology

Xyella fastidiosa

CELLULAR

Staining	Gram negative
Morphology	straight rods ( 0.25-0.35 x 0.9-3.5 um) usually occuring as single cells bu can form long filaments under some conditions
Motility	nonmotile
Specialized structures	no spores

Division

COLONIAL

Solid surface

Colonies are either convex to pulvinate, smooth, opalescent with entire margins or umbonate, rough with finely undulated margins. Non pigmented

Liquid

 

Growth Parameters

Xyella fastidiosa

PHYSIOLOGICAL

Tropism
Oxygen	strict aerobe
pH	optimum pH 6.5-6.9
Temperature	optimum 26-28 oC
Requirements	nutritionally fastidious requiring a specialized medium such as BCYE containing charcoal or Glutamine-peptone medium containing serum albumin
Products	uses hippurate, glucose not fermented, indole negative H2S not produced
Enzymes	oxidase negative, catalase positive, gelatinase positive, Beta-lactamase positive, lipase negative, coagulase negative phosphatase negative
Unique features

ENVIRONMENTAL

Habitat	xylem of plant tissue
Lifestyle
Pathogenicity	phytopathogen of several plants. First isolatred from grapvine with Pierce's disease

Distribution

 

Genome

Xyella fastidiosa

G+C Mol %

 

Reference

Xyella fastidiosa

First Citation	Wells et al 1987 IJSB 37: 136-143
The Prokaryotes	p
Bergey's Determinative	p 100

References