In Morocco, Pectobacterium carotovorum is well known as causal agents of potato soft rot. Actually, there are no efficient bactericides used to protect potato against Pectobacterium spp. biological control using antagonistic could be an interesting approach to manage this disease. Thus, a collection of thirty antagonists isolated from compost, rhizospheres and endophytes of various crop plants ...

Soft rot pectobacteria are broad host range enterobacterial pathogens that cause disease on a variety of plant species including the major crop potato. Pectobacteria are aggressive necrotrophs that harbor a large arsenal of plant cell wall-degrading enzymes as their primary virulence determinants. These enzymes together with additional virulence factors are employed to macerate the host tissue ...

Stored rice was collected from rice processing complexes of National Agricultural Cooperative Federation of 11 regions in Korea to evaluate the occurrence of fungi and bacteria and to identify the predominant fungi and bacteria to the genus levels. Most rice samples generally produced the higher levels of fungi and bacteria than white rice. The occurrence of fungi and bacteria varied in various...

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