Claim · model-written summary
The bacterium was reisolated from diseased stems of inoculated potato plants.
- Taxon
- potato
Solanum tuberosume0 - Outcome
- reisolated from the diseased tissue (stem)e0
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Verbatim
e0“The bacterium was reisolated from the diseased tissue (stem) of the inoculated potato plants”
Title
First Report of Potato Blackleg Disease Caused by Pectobacterium atrosepticum in Guangdong China
X. M. She; Z. F. He; Y. F. Tang; et al. Plant Disease 2013. doi:10.1094/pdis-03-13-0275-pdn
Other claims from this paper (8)
- Observation Blackleg and soft rot occurred in winter potato areas of Huizhou with about 20% incidence.
- Observation Infected potato stem bases blackened and symptoms spread upward.
- Observation Diseased potato foliage yellowed and stems rotted with vascular discoloration.
- Observation The bacterium was isolated from all diseased potato vascular tissues.
- Intervention effect Inoculated potato plants developed the same symptoms as field plants within 3 to 5 days.
- Observation Ten bacterial 16S sequences were identical and matched Pectobacterium atrosepticum CFBP 1526 at 100%.
- Observation Species-specific primer fragments amplified from all ten bacterial strains.
- Observation The authors identify this as the first report of potato blackleg caused by P. atrosepticum in Guangdong.