Acidovorax

Acidovorax
	Bacterial leaf blight of fishtail palm caused by Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Bacteria
Phylum:	Pseudomonadota
Class:	Betaproteobacteria
Order:	Burkholderiales
Family:	Comamonadaceae
Genus:	Acidovorax
Type species
	Acidovorax facilis;
Species
	Acidovorax aerodenitrificans; Acidovorax anthurii; Acidovorax caeni; Acidovorax cattleyae; Acidovorax citrulli; Acidovorax defluvii; Acidovorax delafieldii; Acidovorax facilis; Acidovorax konjaci; Acidovorax oryzae; Acidovorax radicis; Acidovorax soli; Acidovorax temperans; Acidovorax valerianellae; Acidovorax wohlfahrtii;

Acidovorax is a genus of within the family Comamonadaceae. The genus contains some plant pathogens, such as Acidovorax avenae, which causes bacterial fruit blotch on cucurbit crops.^[1] Other Acidovorax sp. perform Fe(II) oxidation in anaerobic environments, forming iron minerals in the soil.^[2]

^ Garrity, George M.; Brenner, Don J.; Krieg, Noel R.; Staley, James T. (eds.) (2005). Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, Volume Two: The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and Epsilonproteobacteria. New York, New York: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-24145-6
^ Pantke, Claudia; Obst, Martin; Benzerara, Karim; Morin, Guillaume; Ona-Nguema, Georges; Dippon, Urs; Kappler, Andreas (2012-02-07). "Green Rust Formation during Fe(II) Oxidation by the Nitrate-Reducing Acidovorax sp. Strain BoFeN1". Environmental Science & Technology. 46 (3): 1439–1446. doi:10.1021/es2016457. ISSN 0013-936X. PMID 22201257.