Scientia Agricultura Sinica ›› 2017, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (12): 2305-2314.doi: 10.3864/j.issn.0578-1752.2017.12.011

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Recent Advances in Taxonomy of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria

FENG Jie   

  1. State Key Laboratory for Biology of Plant Diseases and Insect Pests, Institute of Plant Protection, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100193
  • Received:2016-11-28 Online:2017-06-16 Published:2017-06-16

Abstract: With the deepening of the research on plant pathogenic bacteria, taxonomy on plant pathogenic bacteria has been in a changing process. In addition to the traditional genera were divided into several genera, new genus has been also increasing to nearly 40 genera. Four genera were separated from Erwinia in gram-negative bacteria, such as Pectobacterium, Dickeya, Pantoea and Brenneria. Pectobacterium carotovorum and P. atrosepticum causing soft rot diseases of several crop plants, were originally classified as Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora and subsp. atroseptica, respectively. The genera of Ralstonia, Burkholderia and Acidovorax were separated from Pseudomonas. The naming of new species is also emerging one after another. Now, there are 8 species in Dickeya, the bacteria causing maize bacterial stalk rot and rice bacterial foot rot were reclassified as D. zeae. Some subspecies or pathovar have been upgraded to species. Acidovorax citrulli causing bacterial fruit blotch were originally classified as A. avenae subsp. citrulli. The Latin names of many pathogenic bacteria had experienced several changes. Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. malvacearum causing cotton angular leaf spot were originally classified as X. campestris pv. malvacearum or X. citri pv. malvacearum. Members of the gram-positive bacteria family are also growing. Domestic scholars exist outdated and nonstandard phenomenon in using Latin names. The purpose of this review is to present taxonomy and recent changes of plant pathogenic bacteria, and show the changing process of the old and new Latin names. The focus on plant pathogenic bacteria taxonomy will help to in line with international convention.

Key words: plant pathogenic bacteria, taxonomy, recent advances

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