Structure

      

         Leuconostoc Mesenteroides are bacillus shaped, which means they are rod shaped.  In 1872, a man named Ferdinand Cohn documented and named the bacterium Bacillus subtilis.  It was made to show a large and diverse genus of Bacteria, Bacillus,  it was then put  into the Bacillaceae family. The family's noticeable feature is the manufacture of endospores.  Endospores are highly refractile resting structures created within the cells of the bacteria. Since then, members of the genus Bacillus are characterized as Gram-positive, rod-shaped, aerobic or facultative, endospore-forming bacteria.  The ubiquity of Bacillus class in nature, the strange resistance of their endospores to chemical and physical agents, the developmental series of endospore formation, the creation of antibiotics, the toxicity of their spores and protein crystals for many insects, and the pathogen Bacillus anthracis, have attracted ongoing interest in the genus.  There is great variety in physiology among species of the genus, whose features all together include ruin of most all substrates consequential from plant and animal sources, including cellulose, starch, pectin, proteins, agar, hydrocarbons, and others.

       They also have a flagella which helps in the movement of the cell.   The flagellum, plural flagella is a propulsive construction used by many single-celled organisms to move through a liquid medium. There are three main varieties of flagellum; the bacteria flagellum (a helical filament that rotates like a screw), archaeal flagellum (similar but nonhomologous to the bacterial flagellum), and the eukaryotic flagellum (a whip-like structure that lashes back and forth). If a flagellum is present it contains two rings for support rather than four in Gram-negative bacteria because Gram- positive bacteria like Leuconostoc Mesenteroides only have one membrane layer.   

 

      Teichoic acids and lipoteichoic acids are present, which serve to act as 'chelating agents' and for certain types of adherence. 

 

This is a picture of the genus og bacillus.