gluconacetobacter sacchari gluconacetobacter sacchari gluconacetobacter sacchari is a species of acetic acid bacteria first isolated from the leaf sheath of sugar cane and from the pink sugar-cane mealy bug (saccharicoccus sacchari) on sugar cane growing in queensland and northern new south wales. the type strain of this species is strain sri 1794t (=dsm 12717t). it is notable for its production of bacterial cellulose and for being an endophyte in sugar cane. gluconacetobacter sacchari scientific classification domain: bacteria phylum: pseudomonadota class: alphaproteobacteria order: rhodospirillales family: acetobacteraceae genus: gluconacetobacter species: g. saccharifranke et al., 1999