Pectobacterium parvum sp. nov., having a Salmonella SPI-1-like Type III secretion system and low virulence.

ABSTRACT: Pectobacterium strains isolated from potato stems in Finland, Poland and the Netherlands were subjected to polyphasic analyses to characterize their genomic and phenotypic features. Phylogenetic analysis based on 382 core proteins showed that the isolates clustered closest to Pectobacterium polaris but could be divided into two clades. Average nucleotide identity (ANI) analysis revealed that the isolates in one of the clades included the P. polaris type strain, whereas the second clade was at the border of the species P. polaris with a 96 % ANI value. In silico genome-to-genome comparisons between the isolates revealed values below 70%, patristic distances based on 1294 core proteins were at the level observed between closely related Pectobacterium

SUBMITTER: Pasanen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7395620 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature