Frateuria aurantia

Frateuria aurantia
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Lysobacterales
Family: Rhodanobacteraceae
Genus: Frateuria
Species:
F. aurantia
Binomial name
Frateuria aurantia
(ex Kondô and Ameyama, 1958) Swings et al., 1980

Frateuria aurantia is a species of bacterium.[1] It is named after the Belgian microbiologist Joseph Frateur. The cells are mostly straight rods.[2] Frateuria aurantia was isolated from the plant Lilium auratum and from the fruit of the raspberry Rubus parvifolius.[2] It is a potassium solubilizing bacteria. In certain plants like tobacco, Frateuria aurantia could increase crop yield without using so much chemical fertilizer in soil that is nutrient deficient. In this type of soil the bacteria helped tobacco in absorbing potassium, causing an 39% increase of potassium found in the leaf.[3] This increase in the nutrient allows for more plant growth and yield.

References

  1. ^ Johansen JE, Binnerup SJ, Kroer N, Mølbak L (November 2005). "Luteibacter rhizovicinus gen. nov., sp. nov., a yellow-pigmented gammaproteobacterium isolated from the rhizosphere of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 55 (Pt 6): 2285–91. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63497-0. PMID 16280484.
  2. ^ a b Garrity, George M. (2005). Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part B: The Gammaproteobacteria. New York: Springer ISBN 0-387-24144-2.
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