TABLE 2.
Prevalences of genera and speciesa found in organic and nonorganic spinach samples
| Genus | Species | No. (%) of isolates in spinach from indicated source |
No. (%) of isolates in total samples | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organic | Nonorganic | |||
| Acinetobacter | rhizosphaerae | 1 (1.4) | 0 | 1 (0.8) |
| Enterobacter | aerogenes | 0 | 1 (1.8) | 1 (0.8) |
| amnigenus | 2 (2.8) | 2 (3.7) | 4 (3.2) | |
| kobei | 2 (2.8) | 0 | 2 (1.6) | |
| ludwigii | 1 (1.4) | 0 | 1 (0.8) | |
| ND | 3 (4.2) | 0 | 3 (2.4) | |
| Erwinia | persicina | 6 (8.4) | 11 (20.3) | 17 (13.6) |
| rhapontici | 0 | 2 (3.7) | 2 (1.6) | |
| Pantoea | agglomerans | 11 (6.6) | 15 (27.7) | 26 (20.8) |
| ananatis | 3 (4.2) | 1 (1.8) | 4 (3.2) | |
| Pseudomonas | fragi | 0 | 1 (1.8) | 1 (0.8) |
| libanensis | 1 (1.4) | 0 | 1 (0.8) | |
| orientalis | 2 (2.8) | 1 (1.8) | 3 (2.4) | |
| putida | 20 (28.1) | 8 (14.8) | 28 (22.4) | |
| reactans | 1 (1.4) | 0 | 1 (0.8) | |
| rhodesiae | 0 | 1 (1.8) | 1 (0.8) | |
| syringae | 1 (1.4) | 0 | 1 (0.8) | |
| teessidea | 1 (1.4) | 1 (1.8) | 2 (1.6) | |
| ND | 3 (4.2) | 2 (3.7) | 5 (4) | |
| Rahnella | aquatilis | 7 (9.8) | 3 (5.5) | 10 (8) |
| Rhizobium | ND | 1 (1.4) | 0 | 1 (0.8) |
| Serratia | fonticola | 5 (7.0) | 3 (5.5) | 8 (6.4) |
| proteamaculans | 0 | 2 (3.7) | 2 (1.6) | |
| Total | 71 (100.0) | 54 (100.0) | 125 (100.0) | |
a
The criteria for genus and species identification were BLAST identities above 95% and 98%, respectively. ND, not determined.