''Acidovorax oryzae'' is a

bacterium Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were amon ...

from the

Comamonadaceae The Comamonadaceae are a family of the Betaproteobacteria.Willems A., J. De Ley, M. Gillis, and K. Kersters. ''Comamonadaceae, a New Family Encompassing the Acidovorans rRNA Complex, Including Variovorax paradoxus gen. nov.,comb. nov. for Alcali ...

family which is closely related to '' Acidovorax citrulli''. ''Acidovorax oryzae'' was reclassificated from the former name Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae. It has been shown that ''Acidovorax oryzae'' is serious pathogen fore rice (

Oryza sativa ''Oryza sativa'', commonly known as Asian rice or indica rice, is the plant species most commonly referred to in English as ''rice''. It is the type of farmed rice whose cultivars are most common globally, and was first domesticated in the Yan ...

Etymology

''A. oryzae'' comes from the

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

genus "oryzae" which means rice. ''A.oryzae'' is causal agent of ''bacterial brown stripe'' on rice.

References

Comamonadaceae Bacteria described in 2009 {{Betaproteobacteria-stub