Mozzarella cheese can be considered by far the world’s most popular Italian dairy product. Extending shelf life of mozzarella is an important issue in industry due to high risk contamination several bacteria species, including spoilage pseudomonads. In this work, active packaging was prepared coating traditional polyethylene terephthalate (PET) containers “ovoline” with a food-grade resin mixed...

we assessed a collection of 47 fluorescent pseudomonas spp., some with known biological     control activity against certain soil-borne phytopathogenic fungi such as, macrophomina phaseolina, rhizoctonia solani, phytophthora nicotianae var. parasitica, pythium sp. and  fusarium sp. in vitro and the potential to produce known secondary metabolites such as, siderophore, hcn and protease. the resu...

The ability of some soils to suppress plant disease has been well documented 1. An important example is the development of soils suppressive to Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici (Ggt), the causative agent of 'takeall' of wheat 2. Such natural examples of biological control have been attributed to the indigenous beneficial rhizosphere microflora (see Glossary), especially fluorescent pseudomo...

Strains of fluorescent pseudomonads, isolated from the phyllosphere of grasses, were analysed by a polyphasic approach in order to clarify their interspecific position. Classification on the basis of ribotyping revealed six genotypes; four of these, which could be differentiated clearly from each other and from Pseudomonas species with validly published names on the basis of phenotypic features...

The control of aspartokinase and homoserine dehydrogenase activities was compared in aerobic and fermentative pseudomonads (genera Pseudomonas and Aero,nonas), and in coliform bacteria representative of the principa4 genera of the Enterobacteriaceae. Isofunctional aspartokinases subject to independent end-product control occur in the Enterobacteriaceae and in Aeromonas. In Pseudomonas, there ap...