Pectobacterium carotovorum facts for kids
Pectobacterium carotovorum (syn Erwinia carotovora) is a rod-shaped bacterium originally isolated from carrots. It is a plant pathogen and opportunistic human pathogen, causative agent of soft rot and blackleg potato (P. atrosepticum) diseases.
Pectobacteria
- P. carotovorum subsp. atrosepticum, blackleg agent
- P. carotovorum subsp. betavasculorum,
- P. carotovorum subsp. carotovorum, soft rot
- P. carotovorum subsp. odoriferum,
- P. carotovorum subsp. wasabiae,
- P. cacticidum,
- P. chrysanthemi, (new classification as Dyckeya chrysanthemi)
- P. cypripedii.
- Waldee E.L. 1945 Comparative studies of some peritrichous phytopathogenic bacteria. Iowa State Journal of Science, 19, 435-484.
- Young, J. M., Saddler, G. S., Takikawa, Y., De Boer, S. H., Vauterin, L., Gardan, L., Gvozdyak, R. I. & Stead, D. 1996. Names of plant pathogenic bacteria 1864–1995. Rev. Plant Pathol. 75, 721–863
- Mee-Ngan Yap, Jeri D. Barak, and Amy O. Charkowski 2004 Genomic Diversity of Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora and Its Correlation with Virulence Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 70, 3013-3023
Images for kids
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Soft rot in an onion caused by Pectobacterium carotovorum or Dickeya dadantii.
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See also
In Spanish: Erwinia carotovora para niños
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