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Erwinia

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Erwinia [ər′win·ē·ə]
(microbiology)
A genus of motile, rod-shaped bacteria in the family Enterobacteriaceae; these organisms invade living plant tissues and cause dry necroses, galls, wilts, and soft rots.


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a new species found in clinical specimens and reassignement of Erwinia dissolvens and Erwinia nimipressuralis to the genus Enterobacter as Enterobacter dissolvens comb.
1) Genes carrying vitamin A are isolated from daffodils and the bacteria Erwinia uredovora.
The chief culprit is a bacterium called Erwinia chrysanthemi.
 
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