Pectobacterium

{{Short description|Genus of bacteria}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Slime flux on Camperdown elm.png

| image_caption = Slime flux on a Camperdown Elm caused by Pectobacterium carotovorum

| taxon = Pectobacterium

| authority = Hauben et al. 1998

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = Pectobacterium aroidearum

Pectobacterium atrosepticum

Pectobacterium betavasculorum

Pectobacterium cacticida

Pectobacterium carnegieana

Pectobacterium carotovorum

Pectobacterium cypripedii

Pectobacterium rhapontici

Pectobacterium wasabiae

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Pectobacterium is a bacterial genus of the family Pectobacteriaceae; it used to be a member of the genus Erwinia, which was split into three genera: Erwinia, Pectobacterium, and Brenneria.{{cite journal|last=Toth|first=Ian K.|author2=Bell, Kenneth S. |author3=Holeva, Maria C. |author4=Birch, Paul R. J. |title=Soft rot erwiniae: from genes to genomes|journal=Molecular Plant Pathology|date=1 January 2003|volume=4|issue=1|pages=17–30|doi=10.1046/j.1364-3703.2003.00149.x |pmid=20569359}}

Species include Pectobacterium carotovorum.

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