Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Phylum Pseudomonadota (Proteobacteria), Class Gammaproteobacteria, Order Enterobacterales, Family Pectobacteriaceae, Genus
Acerihabitans, Acerihabitans arboris Lee et al. 2021.
Gram-negative, short rods. Motile. Non-spore-forming.
Grows on nutrient agar. Optimum growth temperature is 28 ºC. Growth range 4-37 ºC,
pH 6.0-8.0 and 0-4% NaCl. Facultatively anaerobic.
Isolated from sap extracted from Acer pictum in Mt. Halla in Jeju, Republic of Korea.
Undetermined.
- Lee SD, Kim IS, Choe H, Kim JS. Acerihabitans arboris gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Pectobacteriaceae
isolated from sap drawn from Acer pictum. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2019; 71:0.
- Reimer, L. C., Vetcininova, A., Sardà Carbasse, J., Söhngen, C., Gleim, D., Ebeling, C., Overmann, J. BacDive in 2019: bacterial
phenotypic data for High-throughput biodiversity analysis. Nucleic Acids Research; database issue 2019.
Description is based mostly on API 20 NE results.
Positive results for beta-galactosidase (PNPG), esculin hydrolysis, acid production from glucose.
Can utilize arabinose, citrate, glucose, gluconate, malate, D-mannose, D-mannitol, and N-acetyl-glucosamine.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, gelatinase, indole production, oxidase, and urease.
No utilization of adipate, caprate, maltose and phenylacetate.
(c) Costin Stoica