Acidovorax is a genus of within the family Comamonadaceae. The genus contains some plant pathogens, such as Acidovorax avenae, which causes bacterial fruit blotch on cucurbit crops.[1] Other Acidovorax sp. perform Fe(II) oxidation in anaerobic environments, forming iron minerals in the soil.[2]
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| Bacterial leaf blight of fishtail palm caused by Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Pseudomonadota |
| Class: | Betaproteobacteria |
| Order: | Burkholderiales |
| Family: | Comamonadaceae |
| Genus: | Acidovorax |
| Type species | |
| Acidovorax facilis | |
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References
edit- ^ Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6
- ^ Pantke, Claudia; Obst, Martin; Benzerara, Karim; Morin, Guillaume; Ona-Nguema, Georges; Dippon, Urs; Kappler, Andreas (2012-02-07). "Green Rust Formation during Fe(II) Oxidation by the Nitrate-Reducing Acidovorax sp. Strain BoFeN1". Environmental Science & Technology. 46 (3): 1439–1446. doi:10.1021/es2016457. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 22201257.
External links
edit- Acidovorax LPSN list of prokaryotic names with standing in nomenclature
- The Microbial Ecology and Genomics Research Laboratory[dead link]
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