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Brenneria is a genus of Pectobacteriaceae, containing mostly pathogens of woody plants. [1] This genus is named after the microbiologist Don J. Brenner.
Some members of this genus were formerly placed in Erwinia . [2]
Species now placed in Brenneria include:
Brenneria rubrifaciens (deep bark canker) - Walnut (Juglans regia) [3]
Brenneriagoodwinii (Acute Oak Decline) - Oak (Quercus robur) [4] [5]
Brenneria salicis (Watermark disease) - Willow (Salix spp.) [6]
Brenneria alni (bark canker) - Alder (Alnus spp.) [7]
Brenneria nigrifluens (shallow bark canker) - Walnut (Juglans regia) [8]
Brenneria populi (bark canker) - Poplar (Populus x euramericana) [9]
Brenneria corticis (bark canker) - Poplar (Populus x euramericana) [10]
Brenneria roseae subsp. roseae - possibly involved in Acute Oak Decline in the UK - Oak (Quercus cerris) [11]
Brenneria roseae subsp. americana - possibly involved in Acute Oak Decline in the USA - Oak (Quercus kelloggii) [11]
A plant canker is a small area of dead tissue, which grows slowly, often over years. Some cankers are of only minor consequence, but others are ultimately lethal and therefore can have major economic implications for agriculture and horticulture. Their causes include such a wide range of organisms as fungi, bacteria, mycoplasmas and viruses. The majority of canker-causing organisms are bound to a unique host species or genus, but a few will attack other plants. Weather and animals can spread canker, thereby endangering areas that have only slight amount of canker.
Erwinia is a genus of Enterobacterales bacteria containing mostly plant pathogenic species which was named for the famous plant pathologist, Erwin Frink Smith. It contains Gram-negative bacteria related to Escherichia coli, Shigella, Salmonella, and Yersinia. They are primarily rod-shaped bacteria.
Phytophthora kernoviae is a plant pathogen that mainly infects European beech and Rhododendron ponticum. It was first identified in 2003 in Cornwall, UK when scientists were surveying for the presence of Phytophthora ramorum. This made it the third new Phytophthora species to be found in the UK in a decade. It was named Phytophthora kernoviae, after the ancient name for Cornwall, Kernow. It causes large stem lesions on beech and necrosis of stems and leaves of Rhododendron ponticum. It is self-fertile. It has also been isolated from Quercus robur and Liriodendron tulipifera. The original paper describing the species, stated it can infect Magnolia and Camellia species, Pieris formosa, Gevuina avellana, Michelia doltsopa and Quercus ilex. Since then many other plants have been identified as natural hosts of the pathogen. Molecular analysis has revealed that an infection on Pinus radiata, recorded in New Zealand in 1950, was caused by P. kernoviae.
Acute oak decline is a disease that infects oak trees in the UK. It mainly affects mature oak trees of over 50 years old of both Britain's native oak species: the pedunculate oak and the sessile oak. The disease is characterised by the trees bleeding or oozing a dark fluid from small lesions or splits in their bark. Unlike chronic oak decline, acute oak decline can lead to the death of trees within 4 to 5 years of symptoms appearing. The number of trees affected is thought to number in the low thousands, with a higher number of infected trees being found in the Midlands. It is thought to be caused by a bacterium; it is currently not known which species is involved, but scientists are actively trying to discover what is responsible. At least three genera of bacteria are possibly responsible.
Cronobacter malonaticus, formerly considered a subspecies of Cronobacter sakazakii, is a bacterium. Its type strain is CDC 1058-77T.
Methylorubrum populi is an aerobic, pink-pigmented, facultatively methylotrophic, methane-utilizing bacterium isolated from poplar trees. Its type strain is BJ001T.
Streptomyces cavourensis is a bacterium species from the genus of Streptomyces which has been isolated from soil in Italy. Streptomyces cavourensis produces flavensomycin.
Acinetobacter puyangensis is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium from the genus Acinetobacter which has been isolated from the bark of the tree Populus x euramericana.
Acinetobacter qingfengensis is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium from the genus Acinetobacter which has been isolated from the bark of the tree Populus x euramericana.
Microbacterium populi is a Gram-positive, non-spore-formin and aerobic bacterium from the genus of Microbacterium which has been isolated from the bark Populus x euramericana.
Acinetobacter populi is a bacterium from the genus of Acinetobacter which has been isolated from a canker of the tree Populus x euramericana in Puyang in China.
Niastella is a bacterial genus from the family of Chitinophagaceae.
Niastella populi is a Gram-negative, strictly aerobic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Niastella which has been isolated from soli from a Populus euphratica forest in Xinjiang in China.
Pontibacter populi is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Pontibacter which has been isolated from soil from a Populus euphratica forest in Xinjiang in China.
Corticibacterium is a genus of bacteria from the family Phyllobacteriaceae with one known species.
Corticibacterium populi is a Gram-negative, aerobic and motile bacterium from the genus of Corticibacterium which has been isolated from the bark Populus × euramericana.
Sphingobacterium populi is a Gram-negative, aerobic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of Sphingobacterium which has been isolated from the bark of the tree Populus × euramericana.
Wohlfahrtiimonas populi is a Gram-negative, facultatively anaerobic and motile bacterium from the genus of Wohlfahrtiimonas which has been isolated from tree Populus × euramericana.
Aureimonas populi is a Gram-negative, facultative aerobic and motil bacteria from the genus of Aurantimonas which has been isolated from the bark of a poplar tree.
Streptomyces populi is an endophytic bacterium species from the genus of Streptomyces which has been isolated from the stem of the tree Populus adenopoda from the Mount Qingcheng in China.