''Microbacterium amylolyticum'' is a

Gram-positive In bacteriology, gram-positive bacteria are bacteria that give a positive result in the Gram stain test, which is traditionally used to quickly classify bacteria into two broad categories according to their type of cell wall. Gram-positive bac ...

heterotrophic A heterotroph (; ) is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter. In the food chain, heterotrophs are primary, secondary and tertiary consumers, but ...

aerobic Aerobic means "requiring air," in which "air" usually means oxygen. Aerobic may also refer to * Aerobic exercise, prolonged exercise of moderate intensity * Aerobics, a form of aerobic exercise * Aerobic respiration, the aerobic process of cell ...

, non-

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-forming and non-motile bacterium from the genus ''

Microbacterium ''Microbacterium'' is a genus of bacteria in the family Microbacteriaceae. Microbacteria are common contaminants of laboratory reagents, which can lead to their being misrepresented in microbiome data. Species ''Microbacterium'' comprises the fo ...

'' which has been isolated from soil from an industrial waste site in

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References

External links

Type strain of ''Microbacterium amylolyticum'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Bacteria described in 2012 amylolyticum {{Actinobacteria-stub