Rathayibacter tritici is a Gram-positive soil bacterium. It is a plant pathogen and causes spike blight in wheat.

Rathayibacter tritici
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Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Actinomycetota
Class: Actinomycetia
Order: Micrococcales
Family: Microbacteriaceae
Genus: Rathayibacter
Species:
R. rathayi
Binomial name
Rathayibacter rathayi
(Carlson and Vidaver 1982) Zgurskaya et al. 1993[1]
Type strain
ATCC 11403
CCUG 23914
CFBP 1385
CIP 104038
DSM 7486
ICMP 2626
JCM 9309
LMG 3728
NCPPB 1857
VKM Ac-1603
Synonyms[1]
  • Clavibacter tritici (Carlson and Vidaver 1982) Davis et al. 1984
  • Corynebacterium tritici (Hutchinson 1917) Burkholder 1948
  • Corynebacterium tritici (ex Hutchinson 1917) Carlson and Vidaver 1982
  • Pseudomonas tritici Hutchinson 1917

References

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  1. ^ a b Zgurskaya HI, Evtushenko LI, Akimov VN, Kalakoutskii LV. (1993). "Rathayibacter gen. nov., including the species Rathayibacter rathayi comb. nov., Rathayibacter tritici comb. nov., Rathayibacter iranicus comb. nov., and six strains from annual grasses". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 43: 143–149. doi:10.1099/00207713-43-1-143.
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