Claim · model-written summary
Infected cauliflower curds had water soaked brown rot with a foul smell.
- Taxon
- Cauliflower
Brassica oleracea var. botrytist0 - Organ / stage
- curdse0
- Interactor
- Pseudomonas tolaasiiPseudomonas tolaasiit0pathogen
- Outcome
- water-soaked brown rot, with a foul smelle0
Not reportedMaterialGeneCompoundSecond interactorSecond interactor roleTreatmentComparatorSettingDirectionValueQualifier
Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“The infected curds exhibit a water-soaked brown rot, with a foul smell”
t0“First Report of Pseudomonas tolaasii as the Causal Agent of Bacterial Brown Rot on Cauliflower in China”
Title
Q. Wang; Z.-Q. Zhang; Y.-X. Shi; et al. Plant Disease 2025. doi:10.1094/pdis-03-25-0503-pdn
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Observation Brown rot affected nearly 15% of cauliflower in the surveyed planting area.
- Observation Multilocus phylogenetic analysis clustered three isolates with Pseudomonas tolaasii NCPPB 2192T.
- Intervention effect Inoculated cauliflower curds and leaves developed brown rot after three days.
- Observation Pseudomonas tolaasii was reisolated from symptomatic cauliflower tissues, supporting its causal role.