Abstract
Abstract
Lel.li.ot'ti.a. N.L. fem. n.
Lelliottia
, named after R.A. Lelliott for his contributions to the understanding of bacterial plant diseases.
Pseudomonadota / Gammaproteobacteria / Enterobacterales / Enterobacteriaceae / Lelliottia
The genus
Lelliottia
includes species regularly isolated from water, soil, spoiled fruit and vegetables, elm trees suffering from “wetwood” disease, and also from clinical samples. Cells are Gram‐stain‐negative, facultatively anaerobic, motile rods. Species are mesophilic, favoring growth temperatures of 30–35°C. Carbon sources such as glucose, cellobiose, fructose, galactose, maltose, mannose,
N
‐acetylglucosamine, and
N
‐acetylgalactosamine are readily assimilated. Species form a monophyletic clade when phylogenetic analysis is based on multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) or whole‐genome sequences. The major fatty acids are C
16:0
, C
17:0
cyclo, C
18:1
ω7
c
, and summed features 2 (iso‐C
16:1
and/or C
14:0
3‐OH) and 3 (C
16:1
ω7
c
and/or iso‐C
15:0
2‐OH).
DNA G + C content (mol%)
: 52.8–56.0 (genome analysis).
Type species
:
Lelliottia nimipressuralis
Brady et al. 2013, VL154 (basonym: “
Erwinia nimipressuralis
” Carter 1945).