a total of twenty seven bacterial strains were isolated from cankerous tissues of apricot, nectarine, peach, plum, sour cherry and sweet cherry trees in tehran province and identified as pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae (pss), the causal agent of the bacterial canker disease, on the basis of lopat (levan production, oxidase test, potato rot, arginine dihydrolase and tobacco hypersensitive ...

Endophytic fungi constitute a remarkable multifarious group of microorganisms live within plants tissues without causing any obvious negative effect. Endophytic fungi have been found in every plant species examined to date. During an investigation on endophytic fungi, 123 fungal isolates were obtained from healthy twigs and leaves of cherry (Prunus avium) and sour cherry (P. cerasus) trees in I...