Pectobacterium atrosepticum

Pectobacterium atrosepticum is a species of bacterium. It is a plant pathogen causing blackleg of potato.^[1] Its type strain is CFBP 1526^T (=LMG 2386^T =NCPPB 549^T =ICMP 1526^T).^[2] Its genome has been sequenced.^[3]

Pectobacterium atrosepticum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Enterobacterales
Family:	Pectobacteriaceae
Genus:	Pectobacterium
Species:	P. atrosepticum
Binomial name
Pectobacterium atrosepticum (van Hall, 1902) Gardan et al., 2003

Blackleg of potato symptoms showing darkened stem and leaf wilt on potato caused by the plant pathogen