RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Oh, Eom-Ji A1 Bae, Chungyun A1 Lee, Han-Beoyl A1 Hwang, In Sun A1 Lee, Hyok-In A1 Yea, Mi Chi A1 Yim, Kyu-Ock A1 Lee, Seungdon A1 Heu, Sunggi A1 Cha, Jae-Soon A1 Oh, Chang-SikYR 2016 T1 Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. capsici subsp. nov., causing bacterial canker disease in pepper JF International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, VO 66 IS 10 SP 4065 OP 4070 DO https://doi.org/10.1099/ijsem.0.001311 PB Microbiology Society, SN 1466-5034, AB Clavibacter michiganensis is a Gram-stain-positive bacterium with eight subspecies. One of these subspecies is C. michiganensis subsp. michiganensis , which causes bacterial canker disease in tomato. Bacterial strains showing very similar canker disease symptoms to those of a strain originally classified as C. michiganensis have been isolated from pepper. In this paper, we reclassified strains isolated from pepper. On the basis of phylogenetic analysis with 16S rRNA gene sequences, the strains isolated from pepper were grouped in a separate clade from other subspecies of C. michiganensis . Biochemical, physiological and genetic characteristics of strain PF008T, which is the representative strain of the isolates from pepper, were examined in this study. Based on multi-locus sequence typing and other biochemical and physiological features including colony color, utilization of carbon sources and enzyme activities, strain PF008T was categorically differentiated from eight subspecies of C. michiganensis . Moreover, genome analysis showed that the DNA G+C content of strain PF008T is 73.2 %. These results indicate that PF008T is distinct from other known subspecies of C. michiganensis . Therefore, we propose a novel subspecies, C. michiganensis subsp. capsici , causing bacterial canker disease in pepper, with a type strain of PF008T (=KACC 18448T=LMG 29047T)., UL https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.001311