Methylorubrum populi

Methylorubrum populi
Scientific classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Alphaproteobacteria
Order: Hyphomicrobiales
Family: Methylobacteriaceae
Genus: Methylorubrum
Species:
M. populi
Binomial name
Methylorubrum populi
(Van Aken et al. 2004) Green and Ardley 2018
Synonyms
  • Methylobacterium populi Van Aken et al. 2004

Methylorubrum populi is an aerobic, pink-pigmented, facultatively methylotrophic, methane-utilizing bacterium isolated from poplar trees (Populus deltoides, hence its name). Its type strain is BJ001T (=ATCC BAA-705T =NCIMB 13946T).