Gluconobacter

Gluconobacter is a genus of bacteria in the acetic acid bacteria family. They prefer sugar-rich environments, so are sometimes found as a spoilage organism in beer. They are not known to be pathogenic but can cause rot in apples and pears. They are used alone or with acetobacter for microbial degradation of ethanol^[1]

Gluconobacter
Gluconobacter oxydans subspecies suboxydans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Rhodospirillales
Family:	Acetobacteraceae
Genus:	Gluconobacter

Species

A number of species are in the genus, such as:^[2]

• Gluconobacter albidus
• Gluconobacter asaii
• Gluconobacter cerevisiae was isolated from fermenting lambic beer in 2014 and proposed as a new species.^[3]
• Gluconobacter cerinus
• Gluconobacter frateurii
• Gluconobacter japonicus
• Gluconobacter kanchanaburiensis
• Gluconobacter kondonii
• Gluconobacter nephelii
• Gluconobacter oxydans is probably the best known, because it has a number of applications in biotechnology.^[4]
• Gluconobacter sphaericus
• Gluconobacter thailandicus
• Gluconobacter uchimurae
• Gluconobacter wancherniae

References

1. "Gluconobacter - A descptiion of the bacterial genus". Archived from the original on 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
2. "Genus: Gluconobacter". lpsn.dsmz.de. Archived from the original on 2020-03-20. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
3. Spitaels, Freek; Wieme, Anneleen; Balzarini, Tom; Cleenwerck, Ilse; Van Landschoot, Anita; De Vuyst, Luc; Vandamme, Peter (2014). "Gluconobacter cerevisiae sp. nov., isolated from the brewery environment". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 64 (Pt 4): 1134–41. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.059311-0. PMID 24368694.
4. "Gluconobacter oxydans - microbewiki". Archived from the original on 2015-02-26. Retrieved 2015-08-29.