%0 Journal Article %A Oulghazi, Said %A Cigna, Jérémy %A Lau, Yin Yin %A Moumni, Mohieddine %A Chan, Kok Gan %A Faure, Denis %T Transfer of the waterfall source isolate Pectobacterium carotovorum M022 to Pectobacterium fontis sp. nov., a deep-branching species within the genus Pectobacterium %D 2019 %J International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, %V 69 %N 2 %P 470-475 %@ 1466-5034 %R https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.003180 %K waterfall %K water %K Pectobacterium %K pectinolytic %K Dickeya %I Microbiology Society, %X Pectobacterium carotovorum M022T has been isolated from a waterfall source in Selangor district (Malaysia). Using genomic and phenotypic tests, we re-examined the taxonomical position of this strain. Based on 14 concatenated housekeeping genes (fusA, rpoD, rpoS, acnA, purA, gyrB, recA, mdh, mtlD, groEL, secY, glyA, gapA and rplB), multi-locus sequence analysis revealed that strain M022T falls into a novel clade separated from the other Pectobacterium species. The in silico DNA–DNA hybridization and average nucleotide identity values were lower than the 70 and 95 % threshold values, respectively. In addition, by combining genomic and phenotypic tests, strain M022T may be distinguished from the other Pectobacterium isolates by its incapacity to grow on d(+)-xylose, l-rhamnose, cellobiose and lactose. Strain M022T (=CFBP 8629T=LMG 30744T) is proposed as the type strain of the Pectobacterium fontis sp. nov. %U https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.003180