Methylorubrum populi

Methylorubrum populi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Alphaproteobacteria
Order:	Hyphomicrobiales
Family:	Methylobacteriaceae
Genus:	Methylorubrum
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 BJ001^T (=ATCC BAA-705^T =NCIMB 13946^T).