Pluralibacter pyrinus

Pluralibacter pyrinus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Pseudomonadati
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Enterobacterales
Family: Enterobacteriaceae
Genus: Pluralibacter
Species:
P. pyrinus
Binomial name
Pluralibacter pyrinus
(Chung et al. 1993) Brady et al. 2013
Synonyms

Enterobacter pyrinus
Erwinia pirina

Pluralibacter pyrinus (formerly Enterobacter pyrinus) is a Gram-negative, motile, facultatively-anaerobic, rod-shaped bacterium. P. pyrinus is the causitive agent of brown leaf spot disease of pear trees.

Background

The cause of brown leaf spot disease affecting pear trees in South Korea was first identified as a novel bacterial infection in 1990. The proposed name for the species was Erwinia pirina, but this name was not validly published. In 1993, further research grouped the organism in the genus Enterobacter as E. pyrinus. Later studies of the genus Enterobacter lead to the species being reclassified into the novel genus Pluralibacter in 2013. The species name is derived from the Greek word pŷr, which means pear.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Chung, Young Ryun; Brenner, Don J.; Steigerwalt, Arnold G.; Kim, Byung Sup; Kim, Heung Tae; Cho, Kwang Yun (1 January 1993). "Enterobacter pyrinus sp. nov., an Organism Associated with Brown Leaf Spot Disease of Pear Trees". International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 43 (1): 157–161. doi:10.1099/00207713-43-1-157.
  2. 1 2 Brady, C.; Cleenwerck, I.; Venter, S.; Coutinho, T.; De Vos, P. (1 July 2013). "Taxonomic evaluation of the genus Enterobacter based on multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA): Proposal to reclassify E. nimipressuralis and E. amnigenus into Lelliottia gen. nov. as Lelliottia nimipressuralis comb. nov. and Lelliottia amnigena comb. nov., respectively, E. gergoviae and E. pyrinus into Pluralibacter gen. nov. as Pluralibacter gergoviae comb. nov. and Pluralibacter pyrinus comb. nov., respectively, E. cowanii, E. radicincitans, E. oryzae and E. arachidis into Kosakonia gen. nov. as Kosakonia cowanii comb. nov., Kosakonia radicincitans comb. nov., Kosakonia oryzae comb. nov. and Kosakonia arachidis comb. nov., respectively, and E. turicensis, E. helveticus and E. pulveris into Cronobacter as Cronobacter zurichensis nom. nov., Cronobacter helveticus comb. nov. and Cronobacter pulveris comb. nov., respectively, and emended description of the genera Enterobacter and Cronobacter". Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 36 (5): 309–319. Bibcode:2013SyApM..36..309B. doi:10.1016/j.syapm.2013.03.005. PMID 23632228.
  3. ↑ Brenner, D. J.; Richard, C.; Steigerwalt, A. G.; Asbury, M. A.; Mandel, M. (1 January 1980). "Enterobacter gergoviae sp. nov.: a New Species of Enterobacteriaceae Found in Clinical Specimens and the Environment". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 30 (1): 1–6. doi:10.1099/00207713-30-1-1.
  4. ↑ Chung, Y. R.; Kim, B.S.; Kim, H.T.; Cho, K.Y. (1990). "Erwinia pirina sp. nov., a causal organism of brown leaf spot of pear". Korean Journal of Plant Pathology. 6 (3): 1.