Mycoplana

Abstract

My.co.pla'na . Gr. masc. n. mykes fungus; Gr. fem. n. plane a wandering; N.L. fem. n. Mycoplana fungus wanderer. Proteobacteria / Alphaproteobacteria / Rhizobiales / Rhizobiaceae / Mycoplana Cells are Gram‐stain‐negative, aerobic, and irregular rods forming branching filaments prior to fragmentation (0.5–0.8 × 2.0–3.0 μm) . The formation of spores is not observed, and motility is through peritrichous flagella . The members of this genus are positive for catalase and oxidase . Colony coloration varies from white to light yellow. The major fatty acids are C 18:1 ω7 c and C 14:0 3‐OH, and the prominent respiratory quinone is Q‐10 along with minor amounts of Q‐9 and Q‐11. The type strains are isolated from soil, while some environmental strains are reported from soil contaminated with petroleum products. DNA G + C content (mol%) : 63.5–64.5. Type species : Mycoplana dimorpha Gray and Thornton 1928 AL , emend. Urakami et al. 1990.

Microbiology in India: status, challenges and scope

“…The results indicated an abundance of Proteobacteria and ESKAPE pathogens, highlighting the problem of misuse of antibiotics. By and large microbial taxonomists are now using genomic data to relook at the systematics and taxonomy of several new taxa that were until recently classified based on only a polyphasic approach (Kumar et al ., 2020a; Hira et al ., 2021; Sood et al ., 2021b). Extensive information on genomics and metagenomics keeps pouring in from different parts of the country (Hira et al ., 2019).…”