Pseudomonas amygdali

Pseudomonas amygdali is a gram-negative plant-pathogenic bacterium in the family Pseudomonadaceae, described by Psallidas and Panagopoulos in 1975 and named for its ability to infect almond trees, Prunus amygdalus. Phylogenetic analysis suggests it should be reclassified within the Pseudomonas syringae group, though it has not been formally renamed because of the difficulty of distinguishing it by ordinary phenotypic tests. Across its more than seventeen documented pathovars it infects woody hosts such as almond, cherry, plum, mulberry, elm and chestnut as well as herbaceous crops including soybean, common bean, cucumber, sesame and tobacco, producing diseases ranging from leaf spots and cankers to bacterial galls and blights depending on the host and pathovar involved. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/