| Pectobacterium polaris |
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Phylum Pseudomonadota (Proteobacteria), Class Gammaproteobacteria, Order Enterobacterales, Family Pectobacteriaceae, Genus
Pectobacterium, Pectobacterium polaris Dees et al. 2017.
Pectobacterium, Pectobacterium polaris Dees et al. 2017.
Gram-negative rods. Motile.
Can grow at 37 and 39 ºC. Grows on lysogeny broth agar with 5% (w/v) NaCl.
Isolated from potato tuber (Solanum tuberosum cv. Polaris ) in Norway, aerial stem in China and Pakistan.
Causes soft rot on potato tubers and aerial stem rot.
- Dees MW, Lysoe E, Rossmann S, Perminow J, Brurberg MB. Pectobacterium polaris sp. nov., isolated from potato (Solanum
tuberosum). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2017; 67:5222-5229. - S. Sarfraz, K. Riaz, S. Oulghazi, J. Cigna, S. T. Sahi, S. H. Khan, A. Hameed, M. W. Alam, and D. Faure First Report of
Pectobacterium parmentieri and Pectobacterium polaris Causing Potato Blackleg Disease in Punjab, Pakistan.Plant disease Vol.
103, No. 6 June 2019, doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-08-18-1450-PDN - Utpal Handique, Yaning Cao, Zhiwen Feng, Qinghua Sun, Ruofang Zhang, and Jian Wu. First Report of Pectobacterium polaris
Causing Blackleg on Potato in Inner Mongolia and Sichuan Province, China. Plant disease. doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-08-21-1788-
PDN. - BacDive in 2022: the knowledge base for standardized bacterial and archaeal data Lorenz Christian Reimer, Joaquim Sardà
Carbasse, Julia Koblitz, Christian Ebeling, Adam Podstawka, Jörg Overmann Nucleic Acids Research; database issue 2022.
Description is based on API 50CH, API 20E and ID 32E (bioMerieux) results.
Positive results for citrate utilization, beta-galactosidase, gelatinase, nitrate reduction to N2, Voges-Proskauer test, acid production
from L-arabinose, amygdalin, arbutin, aesculin ferric citrate, D-fructose, D-galactose, gentiobiose, D-glucose, glycerol, inositol,
lactose, D-mannitol, melibiose, D-mannose, N-acetyl glucosamine, raffinose, L-rhamnose, D-ribose, sucrose, salicin, trehalose and
D-xylose.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, H2S production, indole production, lysine decarboxylase, ornithine decarboxylase, oxidase,
urease, acid production from 2- and 5-ketogluconate, adonitol, D-arabinose, D-arabitold, fucose, dulcitol, erythritol, galacturonic acid,
glycogen, gluconate, inulin, L-arabitol, L-fucose, D-lyxose, maltose, methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside, methyl
alpha-D-mannopyranoside, melezitose, malonate, L-ornithine, palatinose, sodium pyruvate, L-sorbose, D-sorbitol, starch,
D-tagatose, turanose, methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside and L-xylose.
Positive results for citrate utilization, beta-galactosidase, gelatinase, nitrate reduction to N2, Voges-Proskauer test, acid production
from L-arabinose, amygdalin, arbutin, aesculin ferric citrate, D-fructose, D-galactose, gentiobiose, D-glucose, glycerol, inositol,
lactose, D-mannitol, melibiose, D-mannose, N-acetyl glucosamine, raffinose, L-rhamnose, D-ribose, sucrose, salicin, trehalose and
D-xylose.
Negative results for arginine dihydrolase, H2S production, indole production, lysine decarboxylase, ornithine decarboxylase, oxidase,
urease, acid production from 2- and 5-ketogluconate, adonitol, D-arabinose, D-arabitold, fucose, dulcitol, erythritol, galacturonic acid,
glycogen, gluconate, inulin, L-arabitol, L-fucose, D-lyxose, maltose, methyl alpha-D-glucopyranoside, methyl
alpha-D-mannopyranoside, melezitose, malonate, L-ornithine, palatinose, sodium pyruvate, L-sorbose, D-sorbitol, starch,
D-tagatose, turanose, methyl beta-D-xylopyranoside and L-xylose.
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