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Pectobacterium punjabense sp. nov., isolated from blackleg symptoms of potato plants in Pakistan

2018; Microbiology Society; Volume: 68; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1099/ijsem.0.003029

1466-5034

Sohaib Sarfraz, Kashif Riaz, Saïd Oulghazi, Jérémy Cigna, Shahbaz Talib Sahi, Sultan Habibullah Khan, Denis Faure,

Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases

Pectobacterium isolates SS95T, SS54 and SS56 were collected from a potato field in the Chiniot district in the plains of the Punjab province, Pakistan. Sequencing of the gapA barcode revealed that these strains belong to a novel phylogenetic group separated from P.ectobacterium wasabiae and Pectobacterium parmentieri species. Furthermore, multilocus sequence analyses of 13 housekeeping genes (fusA, rpoD, acnA, purA, gyrB, recA, mdh, mtlD, groEL, secY, glyA, gapA and rplB) clearly distinguished the type strain, SS95T, from its closest relatives, i.e. P. parmentieri RNS 08-42-1AT and P. wasabiae CFBP3304T, as well as from all the other known Pectobacteriumspecies. In silico DNA-DNA hybridization (<44.1 %) and average nucleotide identity (<90.75 %) values of strain SS95T compared with other Pectobacterium type strains supported the delineation of a new species. Genomic and phenotypic comparisons permitted the identification of additional traits that distinguished the Pakistani isolates from all other known Pectobacterium type strains. The name Pectobacterium punjabense sp. nov. is proposed for this taxon with the type strain SS95T (=CFBP 8604T=LMG 30622T).