Recently, in Central Florida tomato production fields, tomato foliage and fruit were observed with symptoms similar to bacterial speck. Fluorescent pseudomonads were consistently isolated and the strains were characterized by standard LOPAT tests, pathogenicity tests, and genetic characterization using 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences and multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) of conserved housekeeping genes. LOPAT test results indicated that the strains were likely Pseudomonas cichorii. These strains were pathogenic on tomato and were also pathogenic on lettuce, the host for the type strain of P. cichorii. Likewise, strains of P. cichorii isolated in Florida since the early 1980s from hosts other than tomato, along with the type strain, were also pathogenic on tomato. Genetic characterization using 16S rRNA and MLSA confirmed that the strains were most closely related to P. cichorii but varied significantly from the type strain. The Florida P. cichorii strains formed a separate phylogenetic group along with P. cichorii strains isolated from tomato in Tanzania. These strains were different from the previously described morphotypes and genomovars of P. cichorii. Our results indicate the presence of a genetically distinct group of multihost pathogenic P. cichorii strains that have been present in Florida since at least the early 1980s.
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