Several pectolytic bacterial strains, mainly isolated from monocotyledonous plants and previously identified as Pectobacterium carotovorum, were thought to belong to a novel species after several taxonomic analyses including DNA-DNA hybridization. In 16S rRNA gene sequence analyses, these strains had a similarity of >97.9 % to the 16S rRNA gene sequence of strains representing six other pectoba...

Many plant bacteriologists, if not all, feel that their particular microbe should appear in any list of the most important bacterial plant pathogens. However, to our knowledge, no such list exists. The aim of this review was to survey all bacterial pathologists with an association with the journal Molecular Plant Pathology and ask them to nominate the bacterial pathogens they would place in a '...

The banana (Musa sp.) is a very important crop in the socioeconomic development of Peru. soft rot disease has been causing economic losses. objective was to isolate and identify causal agent implement management alternatives. Bacteria were isolated from pseudostem with symptoms 11 producing areas Chira Valley. pathogenicity tests carried on segments shoots. eight isolates culturally, morphologi...