What is Pectobacterium carotovorum?
{{italictitle}} '''''Pectobacterium carotovorum''''' (syn ''Erwinia carotovora''<ref>Young JM, C.T. Bull, S.H. De Boer, G. Firrao, L. Gardan, G.E. Saddler, D.E. Stead and Y. Takikawa [http://www.isppweb.org/names_bacterial_new2004.asp Names of Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Published Since 1995]</ref>) is a rod-shaped [[bacterium]] originally isolated from carrots. It is a plant [[pathogen]] and opportunistic human pathogen, causative agent of soft rot and blackleg [[potato]] (''P. atrosepticum'') diseases.<ref>Young, J. M., Saddler, G. S., Takikawa, Y., De Boer, S. H., Vauterin, L., Gardan, L., Gvozdyak, R. I. & Stead, D. 1996. Names of plant pathogenic bacteria 1864–1995. ''Rev. Plant Pathol.'' 75, 721–863 </ref> ==Pectobacteria<ref>Gardan L, Gouy C, Christen R and R. Samson 2003. Elevation of three subspecies of ''Pectobacterium carotovorum'' to species level: ''Pectobacterium atrosepticum'' sp. nov., ''Pectobacterium betavasculorum'' sp. nov. and ''Pectobacterium wasabiae'' sp. nov [http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/full/53/2/381#R43 ''Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol.'' 53, 381-391] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829134851/http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/full/53/2/381#R43 |date=2008-08-29 }}</ref><ref>Hauben, L., E. R. B. Moore, L. Vauterin, M. Steenackers, J. Mergaert, L. Verdonck, and J. Swings. 1998. Phylogenetic position of phytopathogens within the Enterobacteriaceae. Syst. Appl. Microbiol. 21:384-397</ref>== *''P. carotovorum'' subsp. ''atrosepticum'', blackleg agent *''P. carotovorum'' subsp. ''betavasculorum'', *''P. carotovorum'' subsp. ''carotovorum'', soft rot *''P. carotovorum'' subsp. ''odoriferum'', *''P. carotovorum'' subsp. ''wasabiae'', *''P. cacticidum'', *''P. chrysanthemi'', (new classification as ''Dyckeya chrysanthemi''<ref>Samson R, Legendre JB, Christen R, Fischer-Le Saux M, Achouak W and L Gardan 2005. Transfer of ''Pectobacterium chrysanthemi'' (Burkholder et al. 1953) Brenner et al. 1973 and ''Brenneria paradisiaca'' to the genus ''Dickeya'' gen. nov.