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Acidovorax valerianellae sp. nov., a novel pathogen of lamb's lettuce [Valerianella locusta (L.) Laterr.]

¹ INRA, UMR de Pathologie Végétale, INRA-INH-Université 42, rue G. Morel, 49071 Beaucouzé cedex, France
² Central Science Laboratory, Sand Hutton, York YO41 1LZ, UK
³ Unité des Entérobactéries, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
⁴ Laboratorium voor Microbiologie, Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium

Correspondence
Louis Gardan
gardan{at}angers.inra.fr

Bacterial spot disease of lamb's lettuce [Valerianella locusta (L.) Laterr.] was first observed in fields in 1991. This new bacterial disease is localized in western France in high-technology field production of lamb's lettuce for the preparation of ready-to-use salad. Nineteen strains isolated in 1992 and 1993 from typical black leaf spots of naturally infected lamb's lettuce were characterized and compared with reference strains of Acidovorax and Delftia. The pathogenicity of the 19 strains was confirmed by artificial inoculation. Biochemical and physiological tests, fatty acid profiles, DNA–DNA hybridization and other nucleic acid-based tests were performed. A numerical taxonomic analysis of the 19 lamb's lettuce strains showed a single homogeneous phenon closely related to previously described phytopathogenic taxa of the genus Acidovorax. DNA–DNA hybridization studies showed that the lamb's lettuce strains were 91–100 % related to a representative strain, strain CFBP 4730^T, and constituted a discrete DNA hybridization group, indicating that they belong to the same novel species. Results from DNA–rRNA hybridization, 16S rRNA sequence analysis and fatty acid analysis studies confirmed that this novel species belongs to the -subclass of the Proteobacteria and, more specifically, to the family Comamonadaceae and the genus Acidovorax. The name Acidovorax valerianellae sp. nov. is proposed for this novel taxon of phytopathogenic bacteria. The type strain is strain CFBP 4730^T (=NCPPB 4283^T).

The EMBL accession number for the 16S rDNA sequence of strain CFBP 4730^T is AJ431731.

An expanded version of Fig. 3 including more reference taxa is available as supplementary material in IJSEM Online.

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