Methylobacterium populi

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Methylobacterium populi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Phylum: Proteobacteria
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Rhizobiales
Family: Methylobacteriaceae
Genus: Methylobacterium
Binomial name
Methylobacterium populi
Van Aken et al. 2004

Methylobacterium populi is an aerobic, pink-pigmented, facultatively methylotrophic, methane-utilizing bacterium isolated from poplar trees (Populus deltoides, hence its name). Its type strain is BJ001T (=ATCC BAA-705T =NCIMB 13946T).[1]

References

  1. Van Aken, B. (2004). "Methylobacterium populi sp. nov., a novel aerobic, pink-pigmented, facultatively methylotrophic, methane-utilizing bacterium isolated from poplar trees (Populus deltoidesxnigra DN34)". INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY 54 (4): 1191–1196. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02796-0. ISSN 1466-5026. 

Further reading

  • Aken, Benoit; Tehrani, Rouzbeh; Schnoor, Jerald L. (2011). Endophyte-Assisted Phytoremediation of Explosives in Poplar Trees by Methylobacterium populi BJ001T 80. pp. 217–234. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1599-8_14. ISSN 0924-5480. 

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