Agromyces

Agromyces is a genus in the phylum Actinobacteria (Bacteria).[1]

Agromyces
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Actinobacteria
Class:	Actinobacteria
Order:	Actinomycetales
Family:	Microbacteriaceae
Genus:	Agromyces Gledhill and Casida 1969 (Approved Lists 1980) emend. Zgurskaya et al. 1992.
Type species
A. ramosus

Etymology

The name Agromyces derives from:
Greek noun agros, field or soil; New Latin masculine gender noun myces (from Greek masculine gender noun mukēs -etis), fungus; New Latin masculine gender noun Agromyces, soil fungus.[2]

Species

The genus contains 31 species, namely[2]

• A. albus ( Dorofeeva et al. 2003, ; Latin masculine gender adjective albus, white, referring to the white colour of colonies.)[3]
• A. allii ( Jung et al. 2007, ;: New Latin genitive case noun allii, of Allium, referring to the source of isolation of the micro-organisms, the rhizosphere of Allium victorialis var. platyphyllum.)[4]
• A. atrinae ( Park et al. 2010, ; New Latin noun Atrina, zoological name for a genus of bivalve mollusc; New Latin genitive case noun atrinae, of Atrina, referring to the isolation of the type strain from a fermented food prepared from Atrina pectinata (comb pen shell).)[5]
• A. aurantiacus ( Li et al. 2003, ; New Latin masculine gender adjective aurantiacus, orange-coloured.)[6]
• A. aureus ( Corretto et al. 2016 )[7]
• A. bauzanensis ( Zhang et al. 2010, ; Medieval Latin masculine gender adjective bauzanensis, of or belonging to Bauzanum, the medieval Latin name of Bozen/Bolzano, a city in South Tyrol, Italy, from where the type strain was isolated.)[8]
• A. binzhouensis ( Chen et al. 2016 )[7]
• A. bracchium ( Takeuchi and Hatano 2001, ; Latin noun brachium (nominative in apposition), a branch of a tree, a twig, referring to the twig-like morphology.)[9]
• A. cerinus ( Zgurskaya et al. 1992, ; Latin masculine gender adjective cerinus, waxcolored, yellow like wax.)[10]
• A. flavus ( Chen et al. 2011 ) [7]
• A. fucosus ( Zgurskaya et al. 1992, ; New Latin noun fucosum, fucose; New Latin masculine gender adjective fucosus (sic), containing fucose in the cell wall.)[10]
• A. hippuratus ( (Zgurskaya et al. 1992) Ortiz-Martinez et al. 2004, ; New Latin masculine gender adjective hippuratus, pertaining to hippurate, relating to the ability to decompose hippurate.)[11]
• A. humatus ( Jurado et al. 2005, ; Latin masculine gender participle adjective humatus, buried.)[12]
• A. indicus ( Dastager et al. 2012 )[7]
• A. insulae ( Huang et al. 2016 )[7]
• A. iriomotensis ( Hamada et al. 2014 )[7]
• A. italicus ( Jurado et al. 2005, ; Latin masculine gender adjective italicus, of or pertaining to Italy, of Italy, the origin of the type strain.)[12]
• A. lapidis ( Jurado et al. 2005, ; Latin noun lapis -idis, a stone; Latin genitive case noun lapidis, of a stone.)[12]
• A. luteolus ( Takeuchi and Hatano 2001, ; Latin dim. masculine gender adjective luteolus, yellowish.)[9]
• A. marinus ( Hamada et al. 2015 )[7]
• A. mediolanus ( (ex Mamoli 1939) Suzuki et al. 1996, nom. rev., ; New Latin masculine gender adjective mediolanus (sic), of or belonging Mediolanum, the old name of Milan, Italy.)[13]
• A. neolithicus ( Jurado et al. 2005, ; New Latin masculine gender adjective neolithicus, neolithic, referring to the origin of the neolithic paintings in Grotta dei Cervi, the source of the soil from which the organism was isolated.)[14]
• A. ramosus ( Gledhill and Casida 1969, species. (Type species of the genus).; Latin masculine gender adjective ramosus, having many branches, much-branched.)[15]
• A. rhizospherae ( Takeuchi and Hatano 2001, ; New Latin rhiza, root; Greek noun sphaira, sphere; New Latin genitive case noun rhizospherae, of the sphere of the root.)[9]
• A. salentinus ( Jurado et al. 2005, ; New Latin masculine gender adjective salentinus, of or pertaining to Salentine Peninsula, the location of Grotta dei Cervi, the area from which the organism was isolated.)[14]
• A. soli ( Lee et al. 2011 )[7]
• A. subbeticus ( Jurado et al. 2005, ; New Latin masculine gender adjective subbeticus, of or belonging to the Subbetic Mountain Range, southern Spain, where the Cave of Bats is located.)[16]
• A. subtropicus ( Hamada et al. 2014 )[7]
• A. terreus ( Yoon et al. 2008, ; Latin masculine gender adjective terreus, of the earth.)[17]
• A. tropicus ( Thawai et al. 2011, ; Latin masculine gender adjective tropicus, tropical, of or pertaining to the tropic(s), relating to isolation from a tropical forest.)[18]
• A. ulmi ( Rivas et al. 2004, ; Latin genitive case noun ulmi, of the elm tree, referring to the isolation source of this micro-organism.)[19]

See also

• Bacterial taxonomy
• Microbiology

References

1. Classification of Genera AC entry in LPSN; Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. PMID 9103655.
2. Agromyces entry in LPSN; Euzéby, J.P. (1997). "List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature: a folder available on the Internet". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 47 (2): 590–2. doi:10.1099/00207713-47-2-590. PMID 9103655.
3. "Agromyces albus sp. nov., isolated from a plant (Androsace sp.)". Archived from the original on 2007-02-06. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
4. Jung, S. -Y.; Lee, S. -Y.; Oh, T. -K.; Yoon, J. -H. (2007). "Agromyces allii sp. Nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Allium victorialis var. Platyphyllum". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 57 (3): 588–593. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.64733-0. PMID 17329790.
5. Park, E. J.; Kim, M. S.; Jung, M. J.; Roh, S. W.; Chang, H. W.; Shin, K. S.; Bae, J. W. (2009). "Agromyces atrinae sp. Nov., isolated from fermented seafood". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 60 (5): 1056–1059. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.012294-0. PMID 19666805.
6. Li WJ; Zhang LP; Xu P; Cui XL; Xu LH; Zhang Z; Schumann P; Stackebrandt E; Jiang CL (January 2003). "Agromyces aurantiacus sp. nov., isolated from a Chinese primeval forest". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 53: 303–307. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02350-0. PMID 12656188.
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8. Zhang, D. -C.; Schumann, P.; Liu, H. -C.; Xin, Y. -H.; Zhou, Y. -G.; Schinner, F.; Margesin, R. (2009). "Agromyces bauzanensis sp. Nov., isolated from soil". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 60 (10): 2341–2345. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.017186-0. PMID 19933590.
9. "Agromyces luteolus sp. nov., Agromyces rhizospherae sp. nov. and Agromyces bracchium sp. nov., from the mangrove rhizosphere". Archived from the original on 2008-07-19. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
10. Zgurskaya HI; Evtushenko LI; Akimov VN; Voyevoda HV; Dobrovolskaya TG; Lysak LV; Kalakoutskii LV (October 1992). "Emended Description of the Genus Agromyces and Description of Agromyces cerinus subsp. cerinus sp. nov., subsp. nov., Agromyces cerinus subsp. nitratus sp. nov., subsp. nov., Agromyces fucosus subsp. fucosus sp. nov., subsp. nov., and Agromyces fucosus subsp. hippuratus sp. nov., subsp. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 42: 635–641. doi:10.1099/00207713-42-4-635.
11. Ortiz-Martinez A; Gonzalez JM; Evtushenko LI; Jurado V; Laiz L; Groth I; Saiz-Jimenez C (September 2004). "Reclassification of Agromyces fucosus subsp. hippuratus as Agromyces hippuratus sp. nov., comb. nov. and emended description of Agromyces fucosus" (PDF). International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 54: 1553–1556. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.02856-0. PMID 15388709.
12. "Agromyces italicus sp. nov., Agromyces humatus sp. nov. and Agromyces lapidis sp. nov., isolated from Roman catacombs". Archived from the original on 2009-09-12. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
13. Suzuki KI; Sasaki J; Uramoto M; Nakase T; Komagata K (January 1996). "Agromyces mediolanus sp. nov., nom. rev., comb. nov., a Species for "Corynebacterium mediolanum" Mamoli 1939 and for Some Aniline-Assimilating Bacteria Which Contain 2,4-Diaminobutyric Acid in the Cell Wall Peptidoglycan". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 46: 89–93. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-1-88. PMID 8573525.
14. Jurado V; Groth I; Gonzalez JM; Laiz L; Saiz-Jimenez C (2005). "Agromyces salentinus sp. nov. and Agromyces neolithicus sp. nov". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 55: 153–157. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63199-0. PMID 15653869. Archived from the original on 2008-10-10. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
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16. "Agromyces subbeticus sp. nov., isolated from a cave in southern Spain". Archived from the original on 2010-05-27. Retrieved 2011-05-28.
17. Yoon, J. -H.; Schumann, P.; Kang, S. -J.; Park, S.; Oh, T. -K. (2008). "Agromyces terreus sp. Nov., isolated from soil". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 58 (6): 1308–1312. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.65072-0. PMID 18523170.
18. Thawai, C.; Tanasupawat, S.; Suwanborirux, K.; Kudo, T. (2010). "Agromyces tropicus sp. Nov., isolated from soil". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 61 (3): 605–609. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.021774-0. PMID 20435752.
19. "Agromyces ulmi sp. nov., a xylanolytic bacterium isolated from Ulmus nigra in Spain". Archived from the original on 2008-08-28. Retrieved 2011-05-28.