purple bacteria

English

Purple bacteria (Chromatium okenii) at 600x magnification.

Noun

purple bacteria pl (plural only)

1. Proteobacteria that produce their own food using photosynthesis, with colors including purple, red, brown, and orange.

Hyponyms

• (photosynthesizing proteobacteria): purple sulfur bacteria (order Chromatiales), purple non-sulfur bacteria (orders Rhodospirillales and Rhizobiales and families Rhodobacteraceae, Rhodocyclaceae, and Comamonadaceae)

Further reading

• purple bacteria on Wikipedia.Wikipedia