Biological control has received increasing interest in recent decades as one of the
alternatives to chemical pesticides in the field of plant disease control, especially after the …

Beneficial microbes play crucial role in modern agriculture, serving as biopesticides,
biostimulants/biofertilizers, and mitigating abiotic stress in crops. Their multifaceted functions …

Dickeya zeae is the causal agent of bacterial soft rot disease, with a wide range of hosts all
over the world. At present, chemical agents, especially agricultural antibiotics, are commonly …

Soft rot Pectobacteriaceae (SRP) are the causative agents of soft rot and blackleg in potato.
In this study, we investigated if potato seed lots of the same cultivar, but originating from …

Resistance to bacteriophage infections protects bacteria in phage-replete environments,
enabling them to survive and multiply in the presence of their viral predators. However, such …

Pectobacterium odoriferum has recently emerged as a widely infective and destructive
pathogen causing soft-rot disease in various vegetables. Bacteriophage phiPccP-1 isolated …

Abstract “The Great Five”(GF) is an artificial bacterial consortium developed to protect potato
tubers from soft rot caused by Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp. To investigate the …

Control of bacterial plant diseases is a major concern, as they affect economically important
species and spread easily, such as the case of fire blight of rosaceous caused by Erwinia …

Blue mold caused by Penicillium expansum is one of the most significant postharvest
diseases of apples. Some microorganisms associated with the surface of ripening apples …

Herbal volatile oils suggested as preserver coatings for potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)
tubers against soft rot, a postharvest bacterial disease. The antibacterial potential of savory …