Bacillus lentimorbus

Bacillus lentimorbus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Bacteria
Division: Firmicutes
Class: Bacilli
Order: Bacillales
Family: Bacillaceae
Genus: Bacillus
Species: B. lentimorbus
Binomial name
Bacillus lentimorbus

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]

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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

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