{{Short description|Species of bacterium}} {{Speciesbox | image = | genus = Pectobacterium | species = atrosepticum | authority = (van Hall, 1902) Gardan et al., 2003 }}
thumb | 220x124px | right | Blackleg of potato symptoms showing darkened stem and leaf wilt on potato caused by the plant pathogen '''''Pectobacterium atrosepticum''''' is a species of bacterium. It is a plant pathogen causing blackleg of potato.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Kröner | first1 = Alexander |display-authors=etal | year = 2011 | title = Quantitative resistance of potato to Pectobacterium atrosepticum and Phytophthora infestans: integrating PAMP-triggered response and pathogen growth | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 6 | issue = 8| article-number = e23331 | doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0023331| pmid = 21853112 | pmc = 3154927 | bibcode = 2011PLoSO...623331K | citeseerx = 10.1.1.289.7419 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Its type strain is CFBP 1526<sup>T</sup> (=LMG 2386<sup>T</sup> =NCPPB 549<sup>T</sup> =[https://scd.landcareresearch.co.nz/Specimen/ICMP_1526 ICMP 1526<sup>T</sup>]).<ref name="Gardan2003">{{cite journal|last1=Gardan|first1=L.|title=Elevation of three subspecies of Pectobacterium carotovorum to species level: Pectobacterium atrosepticum sp. nov., Pectobacterium betavasculorum sp. nov. and Pectobacterium wasabiae sp. nov.|journal=International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology|volume=53|issue=2|year=2003|pages=381–391|issn=1466-5026|doi=10.1099/ijs.0.02423-0|pmid=12710602|doi-access=free}}</ref> Its genome has been sequenced.<ref name="KwasiborskiMondy2013">{{cite journal|last1=Kwasiborski|first1=A.|last2=Mondy|first2=S.|last3=Beury-Cirou|first3=A.|last4=Faure|first4=D.|title=Genome Sequence of the Pectobacterium atrosepticum Strain CFBP6276, Causing Blackleg and Soft Rot Diseases on Potato Plants and Tubers|journal=Genome Announcements|volume=1|issue=3|year=2013|pages=e00374-13–e00374-13|issn=2169-8287|doi=10.1128/genomeA.00374-13|pmid=23788545|pmc=3707594}}</ref>
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== Further reading == * Liu, Hui, et al. "Quorum sensing coordinates brute force and stealth modes of infection in the plant pathogen Pectobacterium atrosepticum." PLoS Pathogens 4.6 (2008): e1000093. * {{cite journal|last1=Baz|first1=M.|last2=Lahbabi|first2=D.|last3=Samri|first3=S.|last4=Val|first4=F.|last5=Hamelin|first5=G.|last6=Madore|first6=I.|last7=Bouarab|first7=K.|last8=Beaulieu|first8=C.|last9=Ennaji|first9=M. M.|last10=Barakate|first10=Mustapha|title=Control of potato soft rot caused by Pectobacterium carotovorum and Pectobacterium atrosepticum by Moroccan actinobacteria isolates|journal=World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology|volume=28|issue=1|year=2011|pages=303–311|issn=0959-3993|doi=10.1007/s11274-011-0820-5|pmid=22806806|s2cid=26095857}}
== External links == * [https://lpsn.dsmz.de/genus/pectobacterium LPSN] * [http://bacdive.dsmz.de/index.php?search=5018&submit=Search Type strain of ''Pectobacterium atrosepticum'' at Bac''Dive'' - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase]
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Category:Pectobacteriaceae Category:Bacterial plant pathogens and diseases Category:Potato diseases Category:Bacteria described in 2003
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