Transfer of the waterfall source isolate Pectobacterium carotovorum M022 to Pectobacterium fontis sp. nov., a deep-branching species within the genus Pectobacterium
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2019
Abstract
Pectobacterium carotovorum M022 T has been isolated from a waterfall source in Selangor district (Malaysia). Using genomic and phenotypic tests, we re-examined the taxonomical position of this strain. Based on 14 concatenated housekeeping genes (fusA, rpoD, rpoS, acnA, purA, gyrB, recA, mdh, mtlD, groEL, secY, glyA, gapA and rplB), multi-locus sequence analysis revealed that strain M022 T falls into a novel clade separated from the other Pectobacterium species. The in silico DNA-DNA hybridization and average nucleotide identity values were lower than the 70 and 95% threshold values, respectively. In addition, by combining genomic and phenotypic tests, strain M022 T may be distinguished from the other Pectobacterium isolates by its incapacity to grow on D(+)-xylose, L-rhamnose, cellobiose and lactose. Strain M022 T (=CFBP 8629T=LMG 30744 T ) is proposed as the type strain of the Pectobacterium fontis sp. nov. © 2019 IUMS.
Keywords
Dickeya, Pectinolytic, Pectobacterium, Water, Waterfall
Publication Title
International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology
Divisions
InstituteofBiologicalSciences
Funders
combicontrol project financed by the French National Agency for Research (ANR-15-CE21-0003) and CNRS,I2BC was supported by the LabEx Saclay Plant Sciences-SPS (ANR-10-LABX-0040-SPS)
Volume
69
Issue
2
Publisher
Society for General Microbiology