Q-bank Bacteria database

The Q-bank Bacteria database contains DNA sequence (Barcodes), morphological, phenotypical and ecological data of more than xxx species that are of relevance to bacterial phytopathology. Currently, the database focuses on the bacterial genera Clavibacter, Xanthomonas, Ralstonia and Xylella.
 

Q-bank Bacteria also offers an overview of the bacterial collection of the National Reference Center of the National Plant Protection Organisation of the Netherlands. It maintains strains representing different genera and species, subspecies or pathovars, encompassing plant associated and phytopathogenic bacteria (pseudomonads, xanthomonads, erwiniae, agrobacteria, coryneforms, etc.).

Information on symptoms, biology, ecology, literature, as well as on major characteristics of the available bacterial strains is, at the moment, only partly incorporated in this database. Future work will focus on a broad-spectrum characterisation of relevant bacterial strains.

Nomenclature in this database is according to the Approved Lists of Bacterial Names (Skerman et al., Int. J. Syst. Bacteriology 30: 225-420, 1980) and the International Standards for naming pathovars (Dye et al., Rev. of Plant Pathol. 59: 153-168, 1980).

The distribution as well as relevant EPPO-protocols for the bacteria can be downloaded from www.eppo.org.

Bacterial strains in Q-bank collections can be ordered from Plant Protection Service, National Reference Centre, Wageningen, the Netherlands.