Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.27154

Name

Phytobacter Zhang et al. 2017 emend. Ma et al. 2020

Taxonomic Rank

genus

Methodology

Nomenclatural Taxonomy [1980-2022]

Incertae sedis taxa are placed using SOSCC (Garrity and Lilburn 2008)

Parent

Taxon Record	Name Record
family	Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1984 emend. Adeolu et al. 2016

Members

species	Phytobacter diazotrophicus Zhang et al. 2017 emend. Pillonetto et al. 2018
species	Phytobacter massiliensis (Lagier et al. 2014) Ma et al. 2021
species	Phytobacter palmae Madhaiyan et al. 2020
species	Phytobacter ursingii Pillonetto et al. 2018

Type Status

Taxonomy

The taxonomic placement of this genus within the root Universal Root.


root Universal Root Woese et al. 1990
domain Bacteria (None 2015) Woese et al. 1990
phylum Proteobacteria (sic) Garrity et al. 2021
class Gammaproteobacteria Garrity et al. 2005 emend. Williams and Kelly 2013
order Enterobacterales (Garrity and Holt 2001) Adeolu et al. 2016
family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1984 emend. Adeolu et al. 2016
genus Phytobacter Zhang et al. 2017 emend. Ma et al. 2020

The taxonomy from the rank of class and below is based upon currently published taxonomic opinion. For a complete taxonomy, refer to The Taxonomic Outline of Bacteria and Archaea, Release 7.7.

Citation

When referring to this Abstract, please use its Digital Object Identifier.

Taxon Abstract for the genus Phytobacter Zhang et al. 2017 emend. Ma et al. 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.27154.

Source File

10.1601/tx.27154.xml


This information was last reviewed on January 15, 2021.

References

Zhang GX, Peng GX, Wang ET, Yan H, Yuan QH, Zhang W, Lou X, Wu H, Tan ZY. Diverse endophytic nitrogen-fixing bacteria isolated from wild rice Oryza rufipogon and description of Phytobacter diazotrophicus gen. nov. sp. nov. Arch Microbiol 2008; 189:431-438. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00203-007-0333-7 [PubMed].
Madhaiyan M, Saravanan VS, Blom J, Smits THM, Rezzonico F, Kim S-J, Weon H-Y, Kwon S-W, Whitman WB, Ji L. Phytobacter palmae sp. nov., a novel endophytic, N2 fixing, plant growth promoting Gammaproteobacterium isolated from oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2020; 70:841-848. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003834 [PubMed].
Ma Y, Yao R, Li Y, Wu X, Li S, An Q. Proposal for Unification of the Genus Metakosakonia and the Genus Phytobacter to a Single Genus Phytobacter and Reclassification of Metakosakonia massiliensis as Phytobacter massiliensis comb. nov. Curr Microbiol 2020; 77:1945-1954. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00284-020-02004-4 [PubMed].
Pillonetto M, Arend LN, Faoro H, D'Espindula HRS, Blom J, Smits THM, Mira MT, Rezzonico F. Emended description of the genus Phytobacter, its type species Phytobacter diazotrophicus (Zhang 2008) and description of Phytobacter ursingii sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:176-184. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002477 [PubMed].