Taxonomy
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Cultural characteristics
Biochemical characters
Ecology
Pathogenicity
References
Phylum Pseudomonadota (Proteobacteria), Class Gammaproteobacteria, Order Enterobacterales, Family Pectobacteriaceae, Genus
Pectobacterium, Pectobacterium fontis Oulghazi et al. 2019.
Old synonym: "Pectobacterium carotovorum M022".
Gram-negative rods.
Grows at 28 and 37 ºC in TY medium (5 g/l tryptone,3 g/l, yeast extract and 15 g/l agar.
Isolated from a waterfall source in Selangor district, Malaysia.
Tests on potato showed that the six studied strains were able to macerate potato tuber slices.
- Oulghazi S, Cigna J, Lau YY, Moumni M, Chan KG, Faure D. Transfer of the waterfall source isolate Pectobacterium carotovorum
M022 to Pectobacterium fontis sp. nov., a deep-branching species within the genus Pectobacterium. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol
2019; 69:470-475.
Can be differentiated from the other Pectobacterium species by its inability to use D-xylose, L-rhamnose, cellobiose and lactose as a
sole carbon source.
(c) Costin Stoica