Rhizobacter

Not to be confused with Rhizobacteria - a general term for bacteria that live on plant roots.

Rhizobacter is a bacterial genus from the class Gammaaproteobacteria order Pseudomonadales. It is a plant pathogenic bacterium and, like a few other phytopathogenic bacteria, produces tumors in infected plants.^[3] It appears to have an extremely wide host range, producing tumors (galls) on the roots, stems and tubers of at least 46 species of plants from 24 families, which includes many economically important species such as tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and cabbage (Brassica oleracea).^[4][5] The type species, Rhizobacter dauci was first identified causing carrot bacterial gall in Japan and was described in 1988.^[1]

Rhizobacter
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Kingdom:	Pseudomonadati
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Gammaproteobacteria
Order:	Pseudomonadales
Family:	Pseudomonadaceae
Genus:	Rhizobacter Goto and Kuwata 1988[1]
Type species
Rhizobacter dauci
Species[2]
Rhizobacter bergeniae Wei et al. 2015 Rhizobacter dauci corrig. Goto and Kuwata 1988 Rhizobacter fulvus (Yoon et al. 2007) Stackebrandt et al. 2009 Rhizobacter gummiphilus Imai et al. 2016 Rhizobacter profundi Jin et al. 2016