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Small, motile, short rods, with two to six peritrichous flagella or a polar or subpolar flagellum, ordinarily Gram-negative, not producing visible gas or detectable acid in ordinary culture media; growth on carbohydrate media usually accompanied by copious entracellular, polysaccharide slime; gelatin liquefied slowly or not at all; optimum temperatures 25° to 30°C. Found in soil, or plant roots in soil, or in hypertrophies or galls on roots or stems of plants.
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Horst, R.K. (2013). Bacterial Diseases. In: Westcott's Plant Disease Handbook. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2141-8_15
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