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