Paraburkholderia graminis
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Taxonomy
Morphology
Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
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Phylum Pseudomonadota (Proteobacteria), Class Betaproteobacteria, Order Burkholderiales, Family Burkholderiaceae, Genus
Paraburkholderia, Paraburkholderia graminis Sawana et al. 2015, comb. nov., type species of the genus.
Old synonym: Burkholderia graminis Viallard et al. 1998.
Gram-negative, 1.0-1.5 x 0.3-0.8 µm, motile cells.
On Luria Bertani agar, colonies are thin, brownish-yellow, translucent. Grows in 3
days on PCAT at 28 ºC, forming white colonies, more or less opaque and creamy,
with an entire margin.
Isolated from the rhizosphere of wheat, corn and pasture grasses.
Unknown.
- Viallard, Veronique, Poirier, Isabelle, Cournoyer, Benoit, Haurat, Jacqueline, Wiebkin, Sue, Ophel-Keller, Kathy, Balandreau,
Jacques. Burkholderia graminis sp. nov., a rhizospheric Burkholderia species, and reassessment of [Pseudomonas]
phenazinium, [Pseudomonas] pyrrocinia and [Pseudomonas] glathei as Burkholderia. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1998 48: 549-563.
- Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, vol. 2, part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. Class II.
Betaproteobacteria, Order I. Burkholderiales, 575-623.
- Sawana, A., Adeolu, M. and Gupta, R.S. 2014. Molecular signatures and phylogenomic analysis of the genus Burkholderia:
proposal for division of this genus into the emended genus Burkholderia containing pathogenic organisms and a new genus
Paraburkholderia gen. nov. harboring environmental species. Front. Genet., 5, 429.
Positive for oxidase, catalase, urease, beta-galactosidase and arginine dihydrolase.
Reduces nitrates to nitrites but does not denitrify.
Positive for the utilization of glycerol, D- and L-arabinose, ribose, galactose, D-glucose, D-fructose, D-mannose, inositol, mannitol,
sorbitol, D- and L-arabitol, gluconate, adonitol, sucrose, D-fucose, 2- and 5-ketogluconate, N-acetylglucosamine, D- and L-fucose, D-
and L-xylose, trehalose, D-lyxose, xylitol, cellobiose, rhamnose, D-raffinose and lactose.
Negative for gelatin hydrolysis, esculin hydrolysis, indole production, glucose fermentation, utilization of: L-sorbose, methyl
alpha-D-xyloside, methyl alpha-D-mannoside, methyl alpha-D-glucoside, inulin, melezitose, starch, glycogen, D-turanose, dulcitol,
D-tagatose, beta-gentiobiose, amygdalin, arbutin, erythritol, melibiose, salicin, maltose and glycogen.
(c) Costin Stoica