Xanthomonas perforans is a species of bacteria. It is a parasite of plants including pepper and tomatoes, causing spots on infected leaves and fruit.Probing plant infections Emerging Pathogens Institute at the University of Florida on October 13, 2021 and accessed December 18, 2023 X. perforans shows most growth at temperatures of 25-30C.Araújo, E.R., Pereira, R.C., Ferreira, M.A.S.V., Café-Filho, A.C., Moita, A.W. and Quezado-Duval, A.M. (2011). EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE ON PATHOGENICITY COMPONENTS OF TOMATO BACTERIAL SPOT AND COMPETITION BETWEEN XANTHOMONAS PERFORANS AND X. GARDNERI . Acta Hortic. 914, 39-42 It is widespread, but mostly found in North and South America.Potnis, N., Timilsina, S., Strayer, A., Shantharaj, D., Barak, J. D., Paret, M. L., Vallad, G. E., and Jones, J. B. 2015. Bacterial spot of tomato and pepper: Diverse Xanthomonas species with a wide variety of virulence factors posing a worldwide challenge. Mol. Plant Pathol. 16:907-920.
It was shown to be insufficiently different from Xanthomonas euvesicatoria to be its own species in 2016. As a result it became Xanthomonas euvesicatoria pv. perforans. (Note: pathovars are not governed by the Prokaryotic Code, but the authors assigned one anyways because they find it useful to still be able to talk about this group of bacteria as a concrete entity.)
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External links Type strain of Xanthomonas perforans at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase