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Phylum Pseudomonadota (Proteobacteria), Class Gammaproteobacteria, Order Enterobacterales, Family Erwiniaceae, Genus
Pantoea, Pantoea cypripedii (Hori 1911) Brady et al. 2010.
Old synonyms: Bacillus cypripedii Hori 1911, Erwinia cypripedii (Hori 1911) Bergey et al. 1923, Pectobacterium cypripedii (Hori 1911)
Brenner et al. 1973.
Gram-negative, nonsporing rods, 1.0 x 1.0-3.0 μm, motile by peritrichous flagella.
Colonies on nutrient agar are smooth, translucent, and more or less convex with
entire margins, nonpigmented. Facultatively anaerobic, growth temperature 30-37 ºC.
Grow on media: Nutrient agar or nutrient broth; Trypticase Soy Agar ± 5% sheep blood;
Luria-Bertani. Can grow on KCN.
Isolated from orchids.
Pantoea cypripedii affects Cypripedium and other orchids (brown rots, maceration).
- J. G. Holt et al., 1994. Facultatively Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods. Subgroup 1. Family Enterobacteriaceae. In: Begey’s Manual of
Determinative Bacteriology, 9th-edition, Williams & Wilkins, pp 175-189.
- Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Naushad S, S Gupta R. Genome-based phylogeny and taxonomy of the 'Enterobacteriales': proposal for
Enterobacterales ord. nov. divided into the families Enterobacteriaceae, Erwiniaceae fam. nov., Pectobacteriaceae fam. nov.,
Yersiniaceae fam. nov., Hafniaceae fam. nov., Morganellaceae fam. nov., and Budviciaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
2016; 66:5575-5599.
- Brady CL, Cleenwerck I, Venter SN, Engelbeen K, De Vos P, Coutinho TA. Emended description of the genus Pantoea, description
of four species from human clinical samples, Pantoea septica sp. nov., Pantoea eucrina sp. nov., Pantoea brenneri sp. nov. and
Pantoea conspicua sp. nov., and transfer of Pectobacterium cypripedii (Hori 1911) Brenner et al. 1973 emend. Hauben et al. 1998
to the genus as Pantoea cypripedii comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2010; 60:2430-2440.
Positive results for catalase, DN-ase, acid production from glucose, D-mannitol, L-arabinose, D-mannose, salicin, trehalose and
D-xylose.
Can utilize melibiose, sucrose, maltose, lactose, gentiobiose, D-ribose, D-xylose, L-rhamnose, D-arabitol, D-mannitol, D-sorbitol
(weakly), D-tartrate, D-malate, citrate, quinate, D-glucose, D-fructose, D-galactose, trehalose, D-mannose, cellobiose, L-arabinose,
glycerol, inositol, D-saccharate, cis-aconitate, D-glucuronate, D-galacturonate, N-acetylglucosamine, D-gluconate, DL-lactate,
L-histidine, L-aspartate, L-glutamate, L-alanine and L-serine.
Negative results for oxidase, arginine dihydrolase, gelatin hydrolysis, H2S production, indole production, lysine decarboxylase,
ornithine decarboxylase, phenylalanine deaminase, urea hydrolysis, Voges-Proskauer test, acid production from: dulcitol,
alpha-methyl-D-glucoside, lactose, and D-adonitol.
No utilization of raffinose, lactulose, L-fucose, Larabitol, xylitol, dulcitol, D-tagatose, adonitol, erythritol, betaine, L-sorbose,
palatinose, melezitose, maltitol, turanose, tricarballylate, 4-hydroxybenzoate, gentisate, 3-hydroxybenzoate, benzoate,
3-phenylproprionate, m-coumarate, histamine, caprate, caprylate, glutarate, 5-aminovalerate, ethanolamine, tryptamine, itaconate,
3-hydroxybutyrate, propionate and L-tyrosine.
Variable results for phenylalanine deaminase and glycerol fermentation.
(c) Costin Stoica