Phenylobacterium immobile

Phenylobacterium immobile
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Caulobacterales
Family: Caulobacteraceae
Genus: Phenylobacterium
Species: P. immobile
Binomial name
Phenylobacterium immobile
Lingens et al. 1985

Phenylobacterium immobile is an aerobic, gram-negative, rod or coccoid-shaped (0.7 to 1.0 by 1.0 to 2.0 μm) bacteria that is non-motile and non-spore-forming. It is notable for degrading Chloridazon. Its type strain is E (= DSM 1986).[1]

References

  1. Lingens, F.; Blecher, R.; Blecher, H.; Blobel, F.; Eberspacher, J.; Frohner, C.; Gorisch, H.; Gorisch, H.; Layh, G. (1985). "Phenylobacterium immobile gen. nov., sp. nov., a Gram-Negative Bacterium That Degrades the Herbicide Chloridazon". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 35 (1): 26–39. doi:10.1099/00207713-35-1-26. ISSN 0020-7713.

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