Pectobacterium carotovorum (Jones, 1901) Waldee, 1945

Kim, Yong-Seok, Yi, Hana, Kim, Myung Kyum, Seong, Chi-Nam, Kim, Wonyong, Jeon, Che Ok, Kim, Seung-Bum, Im, Wan-Taek & Cha, Kiseong Joh and Chang-Jun, 2020, A report of 39 unrecorded bacterial species in Korea belonging to the classes Betaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria isolated in 2018, Journal of Species Research 9 (4), pp. 346-361 : 356

Description of Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. Carotovorum 18N3A9

Cells are Gram-staining-negative, flagellated and rod-shaped. Colonies are circular, raised, smooth, glistening and white-colored after 2 days of incubation on MH at 30° C. Negative reactions are obtained for indole production, arginine dihydrolase and urease in API 20NE. Does not utilize D- maltose, capric acid, adipic acid and phenylacetic acid. Strain 18N3A9 (= NIBRBAC000502539) was isolated from a soil sample, Gapyeong, Gyeonggi-do, Korea .