Rathayibacter tritici

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| taxon = Rathayibacter rathayi

| authority = (Carlson and Vidaver 1982) Zgurskaya et al. 1993{{cite journal | vauthors = Zgurskaya HI, Evtushenko LI, Akimov VN, ((Kalakoutskii LV.)) | title = Rathayibacter gen. nov., including the species Rathayibacter rathayi comb. nov., Rathayibacter tritici comb. nov., Rathayibacter iranicus comb. nov., and six strains from annual grasses | journal = Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. | year = 1993 | volume = 43 | pages = 143–149 | doi = 10.1099/00207713-43-1-143| doi-access = free }}

| type_strain = ATCC 11403
CCUG 23914
CFBP 1385
CIP 104038
DSM 7486
ICMP 2626
JCM 9309
LMG 3728
NCPPB 1857
VKM Ac-1603

| synonyms =

• Clavibacter tritici (Carlson and Vidaver 1982) Davis et al. 1984
• Corynebacterium tritici (Hutchinson 1917) Burkholder 1948
• Corynebacterium tritici (ex Hutchinson 1917) Carlson and Vidaver 1982
• Pseudomonas tritici Hutchinson 1917

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Rathayibacter tritici is a Gram-positive soil bacterium. It is a plant pathogen and causes spike blight in wheat.