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All selected isolates had a wide host range and caused soft rot in all tested representative fruits and vegetables.
- Taxon
- isolatese0
- Outcome
- wide host rangee0
- Qualifier
- soft rot of all representative fruits and vegetables testede0
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Verbatim
e0“All selected isolates showed a wide host range and could cause soft rot of all representative fruits and vegetables tested.”
Title
Characterization of Bacillus altitudinis as a New Causative Agent of Bacterial Soft Rot
Khaled Elbanna; Sameh Elnaggar; Abdelradi Bakeer Journal of Phytopathology 2014. doi:10.1111/jph.12250
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- Observation Twenty-five isolates (37%) were pathogenic to apple fruits with variable virulence.
- Observation Twenty-five isolates (37%) were pathogenic to pear fruits with variable virulence.
- Observation Sixteen isolates (64%) were identified as B acillus and were Gram-positive, motile, spore-forming long rods.
- Observation Five isolates (20%) were identified as P seudomonas with the reported Gram-negative rod phenotype.
- Observation Four isolates (16%) were identified as E rwinia with the reported Gram-negative rod phenotype.
- Observation AB 4, AB 6 and PB 6 were the most virulent isolates on apple and pear cultivars.
- Observation Apple A nna (116) was most susceptible to AB 4, with 63.33% soft rot severity.
- Observation Apple A nna (116) was most susceptible to AB 6, with 60.67% soft rot severity.
- Observation Pear L e‐ C onte was most susceptible to AB 6, with 89.9% soft rot severity.
- Observation AB 4 and AB 6 were very similar and each had 99% sequence similarity to B acillus altitudinis.
- Observation PB 6 had 99% sequence similarity to B acillus pumilus.
- Observation The authors report B . altitudinis as a soft rot pathogen of apple for the first time.
- Observation The authors report B . altitudinis as a soft rot pathogen of pear for the first time.