Table 3.
Bacterial isolates obtained from the American Type Culture Collection and US Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service’s Northern Regional Research Laboratory (USDA-ARS NRRL) Culture Collection. Selected isolates were from genera identified in commercial Echinacea samples by sequence analysis but not obtained from culturing fresh Echinacea tissue.
| Species | Source | Catalog # |
|---|---|---|
| Acidovorax delafieldii | USDA-ARS NRRL | B-4387 |
| Carnobacterium divergens | USDA-ARS NRRL | B-23835 |
| Carnobacterium gallinarum | USDA-ARS NRRL | B-14832 |
| Citrobacter amalonaticus | USDA-ARS NRRL | B-41228 |
| Curtobacterium flaccumfaciens | USDA-ARS NRRL | B-729 |
| Exiguobacterium aurantiacum | ATCC | 35652 |
| Hymenobacter deserti | USDA-ARS NRRL | B-51267 |
| Mucilaginibacter soli | USDA-ARS NRRL | B-59458 |
| Pedobacter heparinus | USDA-ARS NRRL | B-14731 |
| Pedobacter xinjiangensis | USDA-ARS NRRL | B-51338 |
| Stappia stellulata | ATCC | 15215 |