| Pantoea stewartii | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Kingdom: | Pseudomonadati |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Gammaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Enterobacterales |
| Family: | Erwiniaceae |
| Genus: | Pantoea |
| Species: | P. stewartii |
| Binomial name | |
| Pantoea stewartii (Smith 1898) Mergaert et al. 1993 | |
| Subspecies | |
Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii | |
| Synonyms | |
Pseudomonas stewarti(sic) Smith 1898 | |
Pantoea stewartii is a species of plant pathogenic bacteria that causes Stewart's wilt of corn, as well as jackfruit-bronzing disease, [1] bacterial leaf wilt of sugarcane, [2] and leaf blight in rice. [3] P. stewartii is a gram-negative bacterium in the Enterobacterales, a group that also includes Escherichia coli and several other human, animal, and plant pathogens. [4] Most research on this bacterial pathogen to date has been done on strains infecting corn as the other diseases have been identified much more recently. [5] Due to being relatively easy to work with in laboratory research, P. stewartii has been used to study a range of processes in bacterial physiology including quorum sensing, [6] bacterial pigment production, [7] endoglucanase enzymes, [8] and siderophore-mediated iron acquisition. [9] [10]