Paraburkholderia andropogonis
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Phylum Proteobacteria, Class Betaproteobacteria, Order Burkholderiales, Family Burkholderiaceae, Genus Robbsia, Robbsia
andropogonis
Lopes-Santos et al. 2017.

Synonyms:
Pseudomonas andropogonis (Smith 1911) Stapp1928, Pseudomonas stizolobii (Wolf 1920) Stapp 1935; Aplanobacter
stizolobii
(Wolf 1920); Pseudomonas woodsii (Smith 1911) Stevens 1925, Burkholderia andropogonis  Stapp 1928, Paraburkholderia
andropogonis
Sawana et al. 2015.
Gram-negative, slender rods with rounded ends, 0.5-0.7 x 1-2 μm, with one or rarely
two polar flagella.
Butyrous to viscid colonies. No fluorescent pigment produced.
Obligately aerobic, optimal growth temperature 30-35 ºC. Can grow at 40 ºC.
Isolated from plants.
Pathogenic for sorghum (causes bacterial stripe of sorghum), corn, clover, carnation highbush blueberry and velvet bean (leaf spot
disease).
  1. Monique Gillis, Tran  Van Van, Rene Bardin, Mart Goor, Prakash Hebbar, Anne Willems, Paul Segers, Karel Kersters, Thierry
    Heulin & Maria P. Fernandez: Polyphasic Taxonomy in the Genus Burkholderia Leading to an Emended Description of the Genus
    and Proposition of Burkholderia vietnamiensis sp. nov. for N2-Fixing Isolates from Rice in Vietnam. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol., Apr
    1995; 45: 274 - 289.
  2. Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, vol. 2, part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. Class II.
    Betaproteobacteria, Order I. Burkholderiales, 575-623.
  3. Tom Coenye, Severine Laevens, Monique Gillis and Peter Vandamme: Genotypic and chemotaxonomic evidence for the
    reclassification of Pseudomonas woodsii (Smith 1911) Stevens 1925 as Burkholderia andropogonis (Smith 1911) Gillis et al.
    1995. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology (2001), 51, 183–185.
  4. BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase. Sohngen C., Bunk B., Podstawka A., Gleim D., Vetcininova A., Reimer L.C.,
    Overmann J. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkv983. Epub 2015 Sep 30. PMID:  26424852.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Lopes-Santos, L., Castro, D. B. A., Ferreira-Tonin, M., Correa, D. B. A., Weir, B. S., Park, D., Ottoboni, L. M. M., Neto, J. R. and
    Destefano, S. A. L. 2017. Reassessment of the taxonomic position of Burkholderia andropogonis and description of Robbsia
    andropogonis gen. nov., comb. nov. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, 110, 727-736.
Starch hydrolysis is weak positive. Can utilize: arabinose, lactose, D-lyxose, ribose,
adonitol, D-arabitol, citrate, alpha-ketoglutarate, glucose, glycerol, inositol, galactose,
sorbitol, mannitol, L-serine, D- and L-alanine, gluconate and L-cysteine.

Arginine dihydrolase, denitrification, gelatin hydrolysis, lipolysis and oxidase are negative.
Cannot utilize: malic acid, amygdalin, n-acetylglucosamine, arbutin, cellobiose, L-fucose, gentibiose, glucosamine, 5-ketogluconate,
maltose, melibiose, raffinose, salicin, sucrose, tagatose, D-xylose, L-arabitol, dulcitol, erythritol, xylitol, aconitate, adipate, azelate,
butyrate, caprate, caproate, caprylate, citraconate, glutarate, glycolate, heptanoate, isobutyrate, isovalerateitaconate, levulinate,
malonate, mesaconate, oxalate, pelargonate, pimelate, propionate, sebacate, suberate, valerate, tartrate, beta alanine, L-arginine,
L-citrulline, glycine, L-histidine, L-isoleucine, L-leucine, L-lysine, L-norleucine,  norvaline, L-ornithine, L-phenylalanine, L-treonine,
L-tryptophan, L-tyrosine, L-valine, betaine, butylamine, histamine, sarcosine, spermine, tryptamine or benzoate.
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