Taxon DOI

10.1601/tx.6104

Name

Clavibacter Davis et al. 1984

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	Microbacteriaceae Park et al. 1995 emend. Zhi et al. 2009

Members

species	Clavibacter michiganense (sic) (Smith 1910) Davis et al. 1984 emend. Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Clavibacter capsici (Oh et al. 2016) Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Clavibacter insidiosus (McCulloch 1925) Li et al. 2019
species	Clavibacter iranicum (sic) (Carlson and Vidaver 1982) Davis et al. 1984
species	Clavibacter nebraskensis (Vidaver and Mandel 1974) Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Clavibacter rathayi (Smith 1913) Davis et al. 1984
species	Clavibacter sepedonicus (Spieckermann and Kotthoff 1914) Nouioui et al. 2018
species	Clavibacter tessellarius (Carlson and Vidaver 1982) Li et al. 2019
species	Clavibacter toxicus Riley and Ophel 1992
species	Clavibacter tritici (Carlson and Vidaver 1982) Davis et al. 1984
species	Clavibacter xyli Davis et al. 1984
species	Clavibacter zhangzhiyongii Tian et al. 2021

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 Actinobacteria (sic) Goodfellow 2021 non Actinobacteria Stackebrandt et al. 1997
class Actinomycetes Krasil'nikov 1949 (Approved Lists 1980)
order Microbacteriales Salam et al. 2020
family Microbacteriaceae Park et al. 1995 emend. Zhi et al. 2009
genus Clavibacter Davis et al. 1984

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 Clavibacter Davis et al. 1984. Retrieved April 22, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1601/tx.6104.

Source File

10.1601/tx.6104.xml


This information was last reviewed on June 2, 2021.

References

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Li X, Tambong J, Yuan KX, Chen W, Xu H, Lévesque CA, De Boer SH. Re-classification of Clavibacter michiganensis subspecies on the basis of whole-genome and multi-locus sequence analyses. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2018; 68:234-240. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.002492 [PubMed].
Davis MJ, Gillaspie AG, Vidaver AK, Harris RW. Clavibacter: a new genus containing some phytopathogenic coryneform bacteria, including Clavibacter xyli subsp. xyli sp. nov., subsp. nov. and Clavibacter xyli subsp. cynodontis subsp. nov., pathogens that cause ratoon stunting disease of sugarcane and bermudagrass stunting disease. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1984; 34:107-117. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-34-2-107.
Riley IT, Ophel KM. Clavibacter toxicus sp. nov., the bacterium responsible for annual ryegrass toxicity in Australia. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1992; 42:64-68. https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-42-1-64.
Tian Q, Chuan J, Sun X, Zhou A, Wang L, Zou J, Zhao W, Li X. Description of Clavibacter zhangzhiyongii sp. nov., a phytopathogenic actinobacterium isolated from barley seeds, causing leaf brown spot and decline. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2021; 71:. https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.004786 [PubMed].
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