Table 1.
Bacterial strains isolated from white clover leaf washesa
| Phylum (% of isolates) | Class (subclass) | Order (suborder) | Family | Genus | No. of isolates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proteobacteria (50) | Alphaproteobacteria | Rhizobiales | Methylobacteriaceae | Methylobacterium | 16 |
| Sphingomonadales | Sphingomonadaceae | Sphingomonas | 10 | ||
| Betaproteobacteria | Burkholderiales | Comamonadaceae | Variovorax | 2 | |
| Oxalobacteraceae | Duganella | 1 | |||
| Gammaproteobacteria | Pseudomonadales | Pseudomonadaceae | Pseudomonas | 5 | |
| Xanthomonadales | Xanthomonadaceae | Xanthomonas | 1 | ||
| Firmicutes (3) | Bacilli | Bacillales | Bacillaceae | Bacillus | 1 |
| Paenibacillaceae | Paenibacillus | 1 | |||
| Bacteroidetes (7) | Sphingobacteria | Sphingobacteriales | Sphingobacteriaceae | Pedobacter | 2 |
| Flavobacteria | Flavobacteriales | Flavobacteriaceae | Flavobacterium | 2 | |
| Chryseobacterium | 1 | ||||
| Actinobacteria (40) | Actinobacteria (Actinobacteridae) | Actinomycetales (Micrococcineae) | Microbacteriaceae | Microbacterium | 4 |
| Plantibacter | 4 | ||||
| Frigoribacterium | 4 | ||||
| Curtobacterium | 4 | ||||
| Rathayibacter | 2 | ||||
| Labedella | 1 | ||||
| Leifsonia/Agreia | 1 | ||||
| Micrococcaceae | Kocuria | 2 | |||
| Micrococcus | 1 | ||||
| Rothia | 1 | ||||
| Actinomycetales (Corynebacterineae) | Nocardiaceae | Rhodococcus | 2 | ||
| Williamsia | 1 | ||||
| Corynebacteriaceae | Corynebacterium | 1 |
a
Isolates were assigned to their closest related genus by 16S rRNA sequencing.