Bacillus lentimorbus is a Gram-positive bacterium used as a soil or plant inoculant in agriculture and horticulture. It is the causative agent of Milky disease in some scarab beetle larvae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Bacillota |
| Class: | Bacilli |
| Order: | Caryophanales |
| Family: | Bacillaceae |
| Genus: | Bacillus |
| Species: | B. lentimorbus
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| Binomial name | |
| Bacillus lentimorbus Dutky 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Karen E. Rippere, Monique T. Tran, Allan A. Yousten, Khidir H. Hilu and Michael G. Klein. Bacillus popilliae and Bacillus lentimorbus, bacteria causing milky disease in Japanese beetles and related scarab larvae. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology (1998), 48, 395-402
Further reading
edit- Stokes, C.E. (2013). "Diversity of fungal and bacterial communities in tip/end rot diseased sweetpotatoes". Phytopathology. 103 (S1): 10. doi:10.1094/PHYTO-103-5-S1.1.
- Özbek, Hikmet; Çoruh, Saliha (2012). "Larval parasitoids and larval diseases of Malacosoma neustria L. (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) detected in Erzurum Province, Turkey" (PDF). Turkish Journal of Zoology. doi:10.3906/zoo-1104-12. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
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