Paenibacillus lentimorbus

Paenibacillus lentimorbus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Bacteria
Kingdom: Bacillati
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Caryophanales
Family: Paenibacillaceae
Genus: Paenibacillus
Species:
P. lentimorbus
Binomial name
Paenibacillus lentimorbus
(Dutky 1940) Pettersson et al. 1999
Synonyms

Paenibacillus 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] It was formerly classified in the genus Bacillus.

References

  1. ↑ 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

  • Stokes, C.E. (2013). "Diversity of fungal and bacterial communities in tip/end rot diseased sweetpotatoes". Phytopathology. 103 (S1): S11–S111. doi:10.1094/PHYTO-103-5-S1.1. PMID 23577921.
  • 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.