Pectobacterium Waldee 1945 (Approved Lists 1980)
General information
Description and emendation
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1: The cells are gram-negative rods which are 0.5 to 1.0 by 1.0 to 3.0 μm with round ends. They occur mostly alone or in pairs, but chains occur as well. Cells are usually motile by means of peritrichous flagella. Strains are catalase pOSItive and oxidase negative. They apply a fermentative metabolism and are facultative anaerobes. No decarboxylases are formed for arginine, lysine or ornithine. Strains do not possess tryptophane deaminase or urease and hydrolyse esculin but not starch. All strains produce acid from fructose, galactose, glucose, man nose, N-acetylglucosamine, ribose, rhamnose, salicin, sucrose but not from adonitol, arabitol, lyxose, p-methylmannoside, sorbose, starch and tagatose. Pectobacterium strains grow on arabinose, arbutine, p-methylglucoside, citrate, fructose, fumarate, galactose, gluconate, glucose, glycerol, malate, mannitol, mannose, ribose, salicin, succinate and sucrose but not on adipate, arabitol, betaine, benzoate, butanol, gallate, methanol, oxalate, propionate and sorbose as carbon sources. Cells grow on alanine, allantoin, ammonium-chloride, arginine, asparagine, asparaginic acid, cit-rulline, γ-amino butanic acid, glucosamine, glutamine, glutaminic acid, glutathion, glycine, glycylglycine, histidine, leucine, methionine, phenylalanine, serine, tryptophane, tyrosine and ureum but not on anthranilic acid, betaine, choline, cysteamine, hydroxyproline, kynureninic acid, quinolinic acid, sarcosine, spermidine, spermine, trigonelline and trimethylammonium as nitrogen sources. Pectobacterium strains (except P. cypripedii) possess pectolytic enzymes and cause soft rots, necroses and wilts on food crops and ornamental plants. The major fatty acids of the type strains include C12:0, C14:0, C15:0, C16:0, C17:1 ω8c and C17:0. The G+C contents of members of the genus range from 50.5 tot 56.1 mol%.
Subdivision(s)
MID | Name | Rank | Taxon ID |
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M022506080604002 | Pectobacterium aquaticum | Species | 2204145 |
M022506080604006 | Pectobacterium aroidearum | Species | 1201031 |
M022506080604007 | Pectobacterium atrosepticum | Species | 29471 |
M022506080604008 | Pectobacterium betavasculorum | Species | 55207 |
M022506080604009 | Pectobacterium cacticida | Species | 69221 |
M022506080604004 | Pectobacterium carnegieana | Species | 1653844 |
M022506080604001 | Pectobacterium carotovorum | Species | 554 |
M022506080604003 | Pectobacterium fontis | Species | 2558042 |
M022506080604010 | Pectobacterium parmentieri | Species | 1905730 |
M022506080604011 | Pectobacterium polaris | Species | 2042057 |
M022506080604005 | Pectobacterium polonicum | Species | 2485124 |
M022506080604012 | Pectobacterium punjabense | Species | 2108399 |
M022506080604013 | Pectobacterium wasabiae | Species | 55208 |