%0 Journal Article %A HAO, M. V. %A BRENNER, DON J. %A STEIGERWALT, ARNOLD G. %A KOSAKO, Y. %A KOMAGATA, K. %T Erwinia persicinus, a New Species Isolated from Plants %D 1990 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 40 %N 4 %P 379-383 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/00207713-40-4-379 %I Microbiology Society, %X Five strains of a gram-negative, oxidase-negative, facultatively anaerobic, fermentative, motile, rod-shaped bacterium with the general characteristics of the family Enterobacteriaceae were isolated from tomatoes (three strains), a banana, and a cucumber. All of the strains produced a water-soluble pink pigment. As determined by DNA hybridization (hydroxyapatite method) these five strains were 85 to 100% related in 60 and 75°C reactions, and related sequences exhibited 1% or less base sequence divergence, indicating that the organisms are members of a single species. These bacteria were most closely related to Erwinia rhapontici (68 to 72% at 60°C, 42 to 44% at 75°C, 10.5% divergence) and to hybridization group VIII in the Enterobacter agglomerans (Pantoea agglomerans, Erwinia herbicola) complex (64% at 60°C, 32% at 75°C, 14.5% divergence). Phenotypic differentiation from Erwinia rhapontici, which also produces a water-soluble pink pigment, is based on negative reactions by the new species in tests for methyl red, N-acetylglucosamine, dl-tartrate assimilation, and acid production from amygdalin, dulcitol, d-fucose, β-gentiobiose, α-methyl-d-glucoside, glycerol, d-lyxose, melezitose, d-turanose, xylitol, and d-xylose and a positive reaction for acetoin (Voges-Proskauer test). On the basis of these data, the name Erwinia persicinus is proposed for the new organism. The type strain is strain HK 204 (= AJ 2716 = CDC 9108-82 = IAM 12843 = JCM 3704 = ATCC 35998). %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/00207713-40-4-379