Name: Dickeya Samson et al. 2005

Category: Genus

Proposed as: gen. nov.

Etymology: Di’ckey.a. N.L. fem. n. Dickeya, after the American phytopathologist Robert S. Dickey, for his contribution to research on the Erwinia chrysantemi complex

Gender: feminine

Type species: Dickeya chrysanthemi (Burkholder et al. 1953) Samson et al. 2005

Conduct genome-based taxonomy of genus at TYGS

16S rRNA gene: Analyse FASTA

Valid publication: Samson R, Legendre JB, Christen R, Fischer-Le Saux M, Achouak W, Gardan L. Transfer of Pectobacterium chrysanthemi (Burkholder et al. 1953) Brenner et al. 1973 and Brenneria paradisiaca to the genus Dickeya gen. nov. as Dickeya chrysanthemi comb. nov. and Dickeya paradisiaca comb. nov. and delineation of four novel species, Dickeya dadantii sp. nov., Dickeya dianthicola sp. nov., Dickeya dieffenbachiae sp. nov. and Dickeya zeae sp. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:1415-1427.

IJSEM list: Euzeby JP. Notification list. Notification that new names and new combinations have appeared in volume 55, part 4 of the IJSEM. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2005; 55:2239-2241.

Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICNP

Taxonomic status: correct name

• Notes:
  • Yilmaz et al. (2014) assigned this genus to the family Enterobacteriaceae Rahn 1937 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Yilmaz P, Parfrey LW, Yarza P, Gerken J, Pruesse E, Quast C, Schweer T, Peplies J, Ludwig W, Glöckner FO. The SILVA and “all-species living tree project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks. Nucleic Acids Research 2014; 42(D1):D643-D648.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Erwinia Winslow et al. 1920 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Burkholder WH, McFalden LA, Dimock AV. A bacterial blight of chrysanthemums. Phytopathology 1953; 43:522-526.
  • The type species of this genus has alternatively been placed in the genus Pectobacterium Waldee 1945 (Approved Lists 1980). Publication: Brenner DJ, Steigerwalt AG, Miklos GV, Fanning GR. Deoxyribonucleic acid relatedness among Erwiniae and other Enterobacteriaceae: the soft-rot organisms (Genus Pectobacterium Waldee). International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 1973; 23:205-216.
  • Taxonomists who have recently focused on this group are the corresponding authors of Hugouvieux-Cotte-Pattat et al. (2020). Editors in search of reviewers are advised to consider additional criteria such as whether a taxon is covered by one of the ICSP subcommittees.

Subdivision:

Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 12
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 13
Total number of child taxa: 13

• Child taxa:

  • Name	Nomenclatural status	Taxonomic status
    Dickeya aquatica Parkinson et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dickeya chrysanthemi (Burkholder et al. 1953) Samson et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dickeya dadantii Samson et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dickeya dianthicola Samson et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dickeya dieffenbachiae Samson et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	synonym
    Dickeya fangzhongdai Tian et al. 2016	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dickeya lacustris Hugouvieux-Cotte-Pattat et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dickeya oryzae Wang et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dickeya paradisiaca (Fernandez-Borrero and Lopez-Duque 1970) Samson et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dickeya poaceiphila Hugouvieux-Cotte-Pattat et al. 2020	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dickeya solani van der Wolf et al. 2014	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dickeya undicola Oulghazi et al. 2019	validly published under the ICNP	correct name
    Dickeya zeae Samson et al. 2005	validly published under the ICNP	correct name

Parent taxon: Pectobacteriaceae Adeolu et al. 2016

Assigned by: Adeolu M, Alnajar S, Naushad S, S Gupta R. Genome-based phylogeny and taxonomy of the 'Enterobacteriales': proposal for Enterobacterales ord. nov. divided into the families Enterobacteriaceae, Erwiniaceae fam. nov., Pectobacteriaceae fam. nov., Yersiniaceae fam. nov., Hafniaceae fam. nov., Morganellaceae fam. nov., and Budviciaceae fam. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2016; 66:5575-5599.

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