''Agromyces'' is a genus in the phylum
Actinomycetota
The Actinomycetota (or Actinobacteria) are a diverse phylum of Gram-positive bacteria with high GC content. They can be terrestrial or aquatic. They are of great importance to land flora because of their contributions to soil systems. In soil t ...
(
Bacteria
Bacteria (; : bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one Cell (biology), biological cell. They constitute a large domain (biology), domain of Prokaryote, prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micr ...
).
Etymology
The name ''Agromyces'' derives from:
Greek noun ''agros'', field or soil;
Neo-Latin
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masculine gender
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noun ''myces'' (from
Greek
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**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ...
masculine gender
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noun ''mukēs'' -''etis''), fungus;
Neo-Latin
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masculine gender
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noun ''Agromyces'', soil fungus.
Species
The genus contains 31 species, namely
[
* '' A. albus'' ( Dorofeeva ''et al''. 2003, ; ]Latin
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masculine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...
adjective ''albus'', white, referring to the white colour of colonies.)Neo-Latin
Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith ''Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin'' in ; others, throughout. (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy d ...
genitive case
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noun ''allii'', of ''Allium'', referring to the source of isolation of the micro-organisms, the rhizosphere of ''Allium'' ''victorialis'' var. ''platyphyllum''.)Neo-Latin
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noun ''Atrina'', zoological name for a genus of bivalve mollusc; Neo-Latin
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genitive case
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noun ''atrinae'', of Atrina, referring to the isolation of the type strain from a fermented food prepared from ''Atrina'' ''pectinata'' (comb pen shell).)Neo-Latin
Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith ''Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin'' in ; others, throughout. (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy d ...
masculine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...
adjective ''aurantiacus'', orange-coloured.)[
* '' A. aureus'' ( Corretto et al. 2016 )]Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. It was also the administrative language in the former Western Roman Empire, Roman Provinces of Mauretania, Numidi ...
masculine gender
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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.)[
* '' A. bracchium'' ( Takeuchi and Hatano 2001, ; ]Latin
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noun ''brachium'' (nominative in apposition), a branch of a tree, a twig, referring to the twig-like morphology.)Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
masculine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...
adjective ''cerinus'', waxcolored, yellow like wax.)[
* '' A. fucosus'' ( Zgurskaya ''et al''. 1992, ; ]Neo-Latin
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noun ''fucosum'', fucose; Neo-Latin
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masculine gender
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adjective ''fucosus'' (''sic''), containing fucose in the cell wall.)Neo-Latin
Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith ''Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin'' in ; others, throughout. (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy d ...
masculine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...
adjective ''hippuratus'', pertaining to hippurate, relating to the ability to decompose hippurate.)[
* '' A. humatus'' ( Jurado ''et al''. 2005, ; ]Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
masculine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...
participle adjective ''humatus'', buried.)[
* '' A. insulae'' ( Huang et al. 2016 )][
* '' A. iriomotensis'' ( Hamada et al. 2014 )][
* '' A. italicus'' ( Jurado ''et al''. 2005, ; ]Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
masculine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...
adjective ''italicus'', of or pertaining to Italy, of Italy, the origin of the type strain.)Latin
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noun ''lapis'' -''idis'', a stone; Latin
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genitive case
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noun ''lapidis'', of a stone.)Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
dim. masculine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...
adjective ''luteolus'', yellowish.)[
* '' A. mediolanus'' ( (''ex'' Mamoli 1939) Suzuki ''et al''. 1996, nom. rev., ; ]Neo-Latin
Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith ''Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin'' in ; others, throughout. (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy d ...
masculine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...
adjective ''mediolanus'' (''sic''), of or belonging ''Mediolanum'', the old name of Milan, Italy.)Neo-Latin
Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith ''Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin'' in ; others, throughout. (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy d ...
masculine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...
adjective ''neolithicus'', Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...
, referring to the origin of the Neolithic paintings in Grotta dei Cervi, the source of the soil from which the organism was isolated.)Latin
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masculine gender
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adjective ''ramosus'', having many branches, much-branched.)Neo-Latin
Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith ''Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin'' in ; others, throughout. (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy d ...
''rhiza'', root; Greek
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noun ''sphaira'', sphere; Neo-Latin
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genitive case
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noun ''rhizospherae'', of the sphere of the root.)Neo-Latin
Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith ''Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin'' in ; others, throughout. (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy d ...
masculine gender
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adjective ''salentinus'', of or pertaining to Salentine Peninsula, the location of Grotta dei Cervi, the area from which the organism was isolated.)[
* '' A. subbeticus'' ( Jurado ''et al''. 2005, ; ]Neo-Latin
Neo-LatinSidwell, Keith ''Classical Latin-Medieval Latin-Neo Latin'' in ; others, throughout. (also known as New Latin and Modern Latin) is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy d ...
masculine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...
adjective ''subbeticus'', of or belonging to the Subbetic Mountain Range, southern Spain, where the Cave of Bats is located.)[
* '' A. terreus'' ( Yoon ''et al''. 2008, ; ]Latin
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masculine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...
adjective ''terreus'', of the earth.)Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
masculine gender
In linguistics, a grammatical gender system is a specific form of a noun class system, where nouns are assigned to gender categories that are often not related to the real-world qualities of the entities denoted by those nouns. In languages wi ...
adjective ''tropicus'', tropical, of or pertaining to the tropic(s), relating to isolation from a tropical forest.)Latin
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genitive case
In grammar, the genitive case ( abbreviated ) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun. A genitive ca ...
noun ''ulmi'', of the elm tree, referring to the isolation source of this micro-organism.)
See also
* Bacterial taxonomy
Bacterial taxonomy is subfield of taxonomy devoted to the classification of bacteria specimens into taxonomic ranks. Archaeal taxonomy are governed by the same rules.
In the scientific classification established by Carl Linnaeus, each species is ...
* Microbiology
Microbiology () is the branches of science, scientific study of microorganisms, those being of unicellular organism, unicellular (single-celled), multicellular organism, multicellular (consisting of complex cells), or non-cellular life, acellula ...
References
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Microbacteriaceae
Bacteria genera