Characterization of a coryneform isolate from fasciated mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)
Battikhi, M.N.G.
New Microbiologica 25(2): 187-193
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 1121-7138 PMID: 12019725 Document Number: 550285
The morphological and physiological features of coryneform isolated from fasciated mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) display many morphological similarities with the plant pathogenic corynebacteria, but differ from Corynebacterium fascians in exhibiting motility albeit in only a small proportion of each cell population, and by its ability to hydrolyze asculin, its failure to produce urease and differences in pigmentation. The isolate appears to be related to Corynebacterium fascians in its ability to cause fasciation but physiologically and biochemically it resembles Cornyebacterium poinsettiae and C. flaccumfaciens, both of which were transferred to the genus Curtobacterium.