Pantoea stewartii is a species of plant pathogenic bacteria that causes Stewart's wilt of corn, as well as jackfruit-bronzing disease,[1] bacterial leaf wilt of sugarcane,[2] and leaf blight in rice.[3]P. stewartii is a gram-negative bacterium in the Enterobacterales, a group that also includes Escherichia coli and several other human, animal, and plant pathogens.[4] Most research on this bacterial pathogen to date has been done on strains infecting corn as the other diseases have been identified much more recently.[5] Due to being relatively easy to work with in laboratory research, P. stewartii has been used to study a range of processes in bacterial physiology including quorum sensing,[6] bacterial pigment production,[7]endoglucanase enzymes,[8] and siderophore-mediated iron acquisition.[9][10]
^Azizi MM, Ismail SI, Hata EM, Zulperi D, Ina-Salwany MY, Abdullah MA (June 2019). "First report of Pantoea stewartii subsp. indologenes causing leaf blight on rice in Malaysia". Plant Disease. 103 (6): 1407. doi:10.1094/PDIS-08-18-1403-PDN. S2CID91545319.
^Mohammadi M, Burbank L, Roper MC (April 2012). "Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii produces an endoglucanase that is required for full virulence in sweet corn". Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 25 (4): 463–470. doi:10.1094/MPMI-09-11-0226. PMID22122328.
^Soutar CD, Stavrinides J (December 2018). "The evolution of three siderophore biosynthetic clusters in environmental and host-associating strains of Pantoea". Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 293 (6): 1453–1467. doi:10.1007/s00438-018-1477-7. PMID30027301. S2CID253983998.