Pectobacterium aroidearum (DSM 27693, ICMP 1522, LMG 2417)

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Multimedia

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Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
20721	TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY BROTH AGAR (DSMZ Medium 535) Composition: Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
30857	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
30857	35391 ChEBI	aspartate	+	carbon source
30857	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
30857	24148 ChEBI	galactonate	+	carbon source
30857	5417 ChEBI	glucosamine	+	carbon source
30857	32323 ChEBI	glucuronamide	+	carbon source
30857	15428 ChEBI	glycine	+	carbon source
30857	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	carbon source
30857	21217 ChEBI	L-alaninamide	+	carbon source
30857	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
30857	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
30857	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	carbon source
30857	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	carbon source
30857	17822 ChEBI	serine	+	carbon source
30857	53423 ChEBI	tween 40	+	carbon source
30857	53426 ChEBI	tween 80	+	carbon source
30857	17151 ChEBI	xylitol	+	carbon source

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Risk assessment

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	INSDC accession	NCBI tax ID	Score
124043	NCPPB929v1_ONT assembly for Pectobacterium aroidearum NCPPB 929	complete	GCA_041228105	1201031	98.12
124043	ASM4022439v1 assembly for Pectobacterium aroidearum LMG 2417	contig	GCA_040224395	1201031	70.32

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
20721	Pectobacterium aroidearum strain SCRI 109 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	JN600323	1530		1201031
124043	Pectobacterium aroidearum strain ICMP 1522 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	MT759999	762		1201031
124043	Pectobacterium aroidearum strain ICMP 1522 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	MT758026	762		1201031
124043	Pectobacterium aroidearum strain SCRI 109 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence.	JN600322	1530		1201031

GC content

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
	Soft rot pathogen Dickeya dadantii 3937 produces tailocins resembling the tails of Peduovirus P2.	Borowicz M, Krzyzanowska DM, Narajczyk M, Sobolewska M, Rajewska M, Czaplewska P, Wegrzyn K, Czajkowski R.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2023.1307349	2023
	First Report of Pectobacterium carotovorum and Pectobacterium aroidearum Causing Bacterial Soft Rot on Curly Dwarf Pak Choy (Brassica rapa var. chinensis) in Malaysia	Teoh SH, Wong GR, Teo WFA, Mazumdar P.	Plant Dis		2024
	Intercropping with Robinia pseudoacacia reduces soft rot incidence in konjac by modulating the root bacterial community.	Meng P, Xin K, Lu Z, Chen J, Tang X, Meng G, He F, Liu L, Wang H, Wang C.	Pest Manag Sci	10.1002/ps.8405	2025
	First Report of Pectobacterium brasiliense Causing Soft Rot on Leaf Mustard in China	Li X, Ben HY, Liao K, Shi YX, Xie XW, Li L, Fan TF, Li BJ, Chai AL.	Plant Dis		2024
	Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals defense responses against soft rot induced by Pectobacterium aroidearum and Pectobacterium carotovorum in Pinellia ternata.	Luo M, Wang M, Xu J, Qu K, Miao Y, Liu D.	BMC Genomics	10.1186/s12864-024-10746-9	2024
	First Report of Bacterial Soft Rot on Epipremnum aureum Caused by Pectobacterium aroidearum in Taiwan	Wang LH, Tang WQ, Chan JJ, Lee YJ, Chang CY, Fang ZQ, Chu CC.	Plant Dis		2023
	First Report of Pectobacterium aroidearum Causing Soft Rot in Olecranon Honey Peach (Prunus persica) in China	Liang Z, Liu H, Xu Z, Zhang LH.	Plant Dis		2022
	Role of Volatile Organic Compounds Produced by Kosakonia cowanii Cp1 during Competitive Colonization Interaction against Pectobacterium aroidearum SM2.	Mena Navarro MP, Espinosa Bernal MA, Martinez-Avila AE, Aponte Pineda LS, Montes Flores LA, Chan Ku CD, Hernandez Gomez YF, Gonzalez Espinosa J, Pacheco Aguilar JR, Ramos Lopez MA, Arvizu Gomez JL, Saldana Gutierrez C, Rodriguez Morales JA, Amaro Reyes A, Hernandez Flores JL, Campos Guillen J.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms12050930	2024
	Emergence of bacterial soft rot in calla lily caused by Pectobacterium aroidearum in China	Li L, Yuan L, Zhao Y, Shi Y, Chai A, Xie X, Li B.	Crop Prot		2021
Genetics	Analysis of the Taxonomy, Synteny, and Virulence Factors for Soft Rot Pathogen Pectobacterium aroidearum in Amorphophallus konjac Using Comparative Genomics.	Zhang Y, Chu H, Yu L, He F, Gao Y, Tang L.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2022.868709	2022
	First Report of Bacterial Soft Rot on Syngonium podophyllum Caused by Pectobacterium aroidearum in China	Xu PD, Wei DD, Li ZP, Qin CX, Li X, Lin CH, Liu WB.	Plant Dis	10.1094/pdis-03-20-0552-pdn	2020
	First Report of Pectobacterium aroidearum Causing Soft Rot of Pepper (Capsicum annuum) Fruits in Brazil	Moraes AJG, Baia ADB, Souza EB, Peixoto AR, Barroso KA, Almeida CO, Balbino VQ, Silva WJ, Gama MAS.	Plant Dis	10.1094/pdis-02-20-0403-pdn	2020
	First Report of Pectobacterium aroidearum Causing Soft Rot Disease of White Calla Lily in Taiwan	Chen LR, Lin PR, Huang CJ.	Plant Dis		2020
	First Report of Pectobacterium aroidearum Causing Soft Rot of Amorphophallus konjac in China	Wei Hy, Chen Hr, Hu Wt, Huang Fy, Liu Jn, Pei Wh, Wei W, Yang M, Ying D, Yu L, Zhong Y.	Plant Dis		2020
Genetics	Analysis of the Taxonomy and Pathogenic Factors of Pectobacterium aroidearum L6 Using Whole-Genome Sequencing and Comparative Genomics.	Xu P, Wang H, Qin C, Li Z, Lin C, Liu W, Miao W.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2021.679102	2021
	First Report of Pectobacterium aroidearum Causing Soft Rot in Lettuce and Chinese Cabbage in Brazil	Barroso KA, Moraes AJG, Mariano RLR, Gama MAS, Souza EB, Queiroz MF, Silva GSP, Da Paz CD, Peixoto AR.	Plant Dis	10.1094/pdis-12-18-2237-pdn	2019
	First Report of Pectobacterium aroidearum Causing Soft Rot of Chinese Cabbage in China	Xie H, Li XY, Ma YL, Tian Y.	Plant Dis	10.1094/pdis-07-17-1059-pdn	2018
	Dickeya fangzhongdai was prevalent and caused taro soft rot when coexisting with the Pectobacterium complex, with a preference for Araceae plants.	Zhang J, Sun D, Shen H, Pu X, Liu P, Lin B, Yang Q.	Front Microbiol	10.3389/fmicb.2024.1431047	2024
	Pectobacterium aroidearum and Pectobacterium carotovorum subsp. carotovorum as causal agents of potato soft rot in Lebanon	Moretti C, Fakhr R, Cortese C, De Vos P, Cerri M, Geagea L, Cleenwerck I, Buonaurio R.	Eur J Plant Pathol	10.1007/s10658-015-0743-3	2016
	The C3H gene PtZFP2-like in Pinellia ternata acts as a positive regulator of the resistance to soft rot caused by Pectobacterium carotovorum.	Luo M, Li X, Zhang J, Miao Y, Liu D.	Physiol Plant	10.1111/ppl.70121	2025
Genetics	A Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Assay for Rapid Detection of Pectobacterium aroidearum that Causes Soft Rot in Konjac.	Sun M, Liu H, Huang J, Peng J, Fei F, Zhang Y, Hsiang T, Zheng L.	Int J Mol Sci	10.3390/ijms20081937	2019
	Pectobacterium punjabense Causing Blackleg and Soft Rot of Potato: The First Report in the Russian Federation.	Vasilyeva AA, Evseev PV, Ignatov AN, Dzhalilov FS.	Plants (Basel)	10.3390/plants13152144	2024
Genetics	Pectobacterium carotovorum Phage vB_PcaM_P7_Pc Is a New Member of the Genus Certrevirus.	Naligama KN, Halmillawewa AP.	Microbiol Spectr	10.1128/spectrum.03126-22	2022
	Droplet microfluidics-based high-throughput bacterial cultivation for validation of taxon pairs in microbial co-occurrence networks.	Jiang MZ, Zhu HZ, Zhou N, Liu C, Jiang CY, Wang Y, Liu SJ.	Sci Rep	10.1038/s41598-022-23000-7	2022
Genetics	Genetic and Phenotypic Study of the Pectobacterium versatile Beta-Lactamase, the Enzyme Most Similar to the Plasmid-Encoded TEM-1.	Royer G, Dixit Z, Pedron J, Pierrat G, Demontant V, Bercot B, Rodriguez C, Barny MA, Jacquier H, Woerther PL.	Appl Environ Microbiol	10.1128/aem.00220-22	2022
Pathogenicity	Host Specificity and Differential Pathogenicity of Pectobacterium Strains from Dicot and Monocot Hosts.	Khadka N, Joshi JR, Reznik N, Chriker N, Nudel A, Zelinger E, Kerem Z, Yedidia I.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms8101479	2020
	Genetic Diversity of Pectobacterium spp. on Potato in Serbia.	Loc M, Milosevic D, Ivanovic Z, Ignjatov M, Budakov D, Grahovac J, Grahovac M.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms10091840	2022
Pathogenicity	Updated Taxonomy of Pectobacterium Genus in the CIRM-CFBP Bacterial Collection: When Newly Described Species Reveal "Old" Endemic Population.	Portier P, Pedron J, Taghouti G, Dutrieux C, Barny MA.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms8091441	2020
Pathogenicity	Impact of Homologous Recombination on Core Genome Evolution and Host Adaptation of Pectobacterium parmentieri.	Arizala D, Arif M.	Genome Biol Evol	10.1093/gbe/evae032	2024
Pathogenicity	Study on Antibacterial and Quorum-Sensing Inhibition Activities of Cinnamomum camphora Leaf Essential Oil.	Wang W, Li D, Huang X, Yang H, Qiu Z, Zou L, Liang Q, Shi Y, Wu Y, Wu S, Yang C, Li Y.	Molecules	10.3390/molecules24203792	2019
Pathogenicity	Plant phenolic volatiles inhibit quorum sensing in pectobacteria and reduce their virulence by potential binding to ExpI and ExpR proteins.	Joshi JR, Khazanov N, Senderowitz H, Burdman S, Lipsky A, Yedidia I.	Sci Rep	10.1038/srep38126	2016
Metabolism	N-3-oxo-octanoyl-homoserine lactone-mediated priming of resistance to Pseudomonas syringae requires the salicylic acid signaling pathway in Arabidopsis thaliana.	Liu F, Zhao Q, Jia Z, Song C, Huang Y, Ma H, Song S.	BMC Plant Biol	10.1186/s12870-019-2228-6	2020
	Role and regulation of the Flp/Tad pilus in the virulence of Pectobacterium atrosepticum SCRI1043 and Pectobacterium wasabiae SCC3193.	Nykyri J, Mattinen L, Niemi O, Adhikari S, Koiv V, Somervuo P, Fang X, Auvinen P, Mae A, Palva ET, Pirhonen M.	PLoS One	10.1371/journal.pone.0073718	2013
Pathogenicity	The Plant Defense Signal Salicylic Acid Activates the RpfB-Dependent Quorum Sensing Signal Turnover via Altering the Culture and Cytoplasmic pH in the Phytopathogen Xanthomonas campestris.	Song K, Chen B, Cui Y, Zhou L, Chan KG, Zhang HY, He YW.	mBio	10.1128/mbio.03644-21	2022
	First report of Pectobacterium aroidearum causing bacterial soft rot of carrot in Taiwan.	Tang WQ, Chang CY, Lee YJ, Chu CC	Plant Dis	10.1094/PDIS-08-20-1824-PDN	2020
Genetics	Isolation and Genome Analysis of Pectobacterium colocasium sp. nov. and Pectobacterium aroidearum, Two New Pathogens of Taro.	Zhou J, Hu M, Hu A, Li C, Ren X, Tao M, Xue Y, Chen S, Tang C, Xu Y, Zhang L, Zhou X.	Front Plant Sci	10.3389/fpls.2022.852750	2022
Phylogeny	Pectobacterium zantedeschiae sp. nov. a new species of a soft rot pathogen isolated from Calla lily (Zantedeschia spp.).	Waleron M, Misztak A, Waleron M, Franczuk M, Jonca J, Wielgomas B, Mikicinski A, Popovic T, Waleron K.	Syst Appl Microbiol	10.1016/j.syapm.2018.08.004	2019
Phylogeny	Pectobacterium aroidearum sp. nov., a soft rot pathogen with preference for monocotyledonous plants.	Nabhan S, De Boer SH, Maiss E, Wydra K	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.046011-0	2012