Biology:Bacillus lentimorbus

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Short description: Species of bacterium

Bacillus lentimorbus
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Bacillota
Class: Bacilli
Order: Bacillales
Family: Bacillaceae
Genus: Bacillus
Species:
B. lentimorbus
Binomial name
Bacillus lentimorbus
Dutky 1940 (Approved Lists 1980)

Bacillus lentimorbus is a Gram-positive bacterium used as a soil or plant inoculant in agriculture and horticulture. It is the causative agent of Milky disease in some scarab beetle larvae.[1]

See also

References

  1. Karen E. Rippere, Monique T. Tran, Allan A. Yousten, Khidir H. Hilu and Michael G. Klein. Bacillus popilliae and Bacillus lentimorbus, bacteria causing milky disease in Japanese beetles and related scarab larvae. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology (1998), 48, 395-402

Further reading

Wikidata ☰ Q4838969 entry