Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Phylum Pseudomonadota (Proteobacteria), Class Gammaproteobacteria, Order Enterobacterales, Family Erwiniaceae, Genus
Pantoea, Pantoea dispersa Gavini et al. 1989.
Gram-negative, nonsporing rods, 0.5-1.3 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 or yellow colonies. Strains grow well on nutrient agar
at 30 and 41 ºC but not at 44 ºC or 4 ºC. Variable growth on KCN.
Isolated from plant surfaces, seeds, humans, and the environment.
Undetermined.
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Determinative Bacteriology, 9th-edition, Williams & Wilkins, pp 175-189.
- Don J. Brenner and J.J. Farmer III, 2001. Family I. Enterobacteriaceae. In: Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Second
edition, Vol two, part B, George M. Garrity (Editor-in-Chief), pp 587-897.
- 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.
- Gavini F., Mergaert J., Beji A., Mielcarek C., Izard D., Kersters K. & De Ley J.: Transfer of Enterobacter agglomerans (Beijerinck
1888) Ewing and Fife 1972 to Pantoea gen. nov. as Pantoea agglomerans comb. nov. and description of Pantoea dispersa sp.
nov. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., 1989, 39, 337-345.
Positive results for catalase, DN-ase, acid production from glucose, D-mannitol, L-arabinose, D-mannose, trehalose and D-xylose.
Utilization as sole carbon sources of meso-erythritol, gentiobiose, malonate, D-glucuronate and 5-ketogluconate.
Negative results for oxidase, arginine dihydrolase, gelatin hydrolysis, indole lysine decarboxylase, ornithine decarboxylase, urea
hydrolysis, phenylalanine deaminase, acid production from: dulcitol, lactose, salicin, alpha-methyl-D-glucoside and D-adonitol.
No utilization of D-melibiose, D-raffinose, and dtartrate
Variable results for Voges-Proskauer test.
(c) Costin Stoica