Acetobacter fabarum Cleenwerck et al., 2008
- Dataset
- English Wikipedia - Species Pages
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- phylum
- Pseudomonadota
- class
- Alphaproteobacteria
- order
- Rhodospirillales
- family
- Acetobacteraceae
- genus
- Acetobacter
- species
- Acetobacter fabarum
Abstract
Acetobacter fabarum is a bacterium that was first identified from fermenting cocoa beans in Ghana.
Description
A. fabarum are gram-negative bacteria that appear as rounded rods, approximately 0.8 micrometers by 1.2 to 3 micrometers in size. If grown on agar plates, A. fabarum forms beige, round colonies that grow to 0.8 millimeters after three days at 28°C.