Acidovorax

Acidovorax
	Bacterial leaf blight of fishtail palm caused by Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Burkholderiales
Family:	Comamonadaceae
Genus:	Acidovorax
Type species
	Acidovorax facilis;
Species
	Acidovorax aerodenitrificans ; Acidovorax anthurii ; Acidovorax caeni ; Acidovorax cattleyae ; Acidovorax citrulli ; Acidovorax defluvii ; Acidovorax delafieldii ; Acidovorax facilis ; Acidovorax konjaci ; Acidovorax oryzae ; Acidovorax radicis ; Acidovorax soli ; Acidovorax temperans ; Acidovorax valerianellae ; Acidovorax wohlfahrtii ;

Last updated May 29, 2025

Acidovorax is a genus of within the family Comamonadaceae. The genus contains some plant pathogens, such as Acidovorax avenae, which causes bacterial fruit blotch on cucurbit crops.^[1] Other Acidovorax sp. perform Fe(II) oxidation in anaerobic environments, forming iron minerals in the soil.^[2]

References

↑ Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6
↑ Pantke, Claudia; Obst, Martin; Benzerara, Karim; Morin, Guillaume; Ona-Nguema, Georges; Dippon, Urs; Kappler, Andreas (2012-02-07). "Green Rust Formation during Fe(II) Oxidation by the Nitrate-Reducing Acidovorax sp. Strain BoFeN1" . Environmental Science & Technology. 46 (3): 1439–1446. doi:10.1021/es2016457. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 22201257.

External links

Acidovorax LPSN list of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature
The Microbial Ecology and Genomics Research Laboratory

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[BergeyAlpha-1] Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6

[2] Pantke, Claudia; Obst, Martin; Benzerara, Karim; Morin, Guillaume; Ona-Nguema, Georges; Dippon, Urs; Kappler, Andreas (2012-02-07). "Green Rust Formation during Fe(II) Oxidation by the Nitrate-Reducing Acidovorax sp. Strain BoFeN1" . Environmental Science & Technology. 46 (3): 1439–1446. doi:10.1021/es2016457. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 22201257.

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