… High numbers of bacteria in the stems often occur when flowers are kept … cut flower handling,
as most flower species are kept in water by the growers, wholesalers and retailers. Flowers …

… number of bacteria in stems, after 7 d of vase life, to about lo5 cfu/g fresh weight. HQC at 250
mg/l did not damage the flowers and generally reduced the number of bacteria … to cut flower …

… testing cut flowers, where bent neck and vascular blockage in cut … After seven days the number
of bacteria in the stems was … In our system STS did not reduce the number of bacteria and …

… this with water uptake by the cut flowers and the number of bacteria in the vase solution. We
… with bacterial numbers in the vase solution that are the same or higher than in the controls. …

… water on the number of bacteria in the basal 5-cm stem segment of cut ‘Sonia’ rose flowers
during dry storage … Studies on the preservation of cut flowers. Contrib. Boyce Thompson Inst. …

… the number of bacteria in stems of cut carnation flowers was … During the experiment, the
number of bacteria in the vase … Control of bacteria in vase water and quality of cut flowers as …

… The species composition of the bacteria in stems of cut carnation flowers that were held
in … Numbers of bacteria in aqueous solutions used for postharvest handling of cut flowers. …

… subsequent senescence of cut flowers to bacterial plugging of … inside stems of cut flowers
using isolation onto agar media (4… Our results demonstrate that small numbers of introduced mi…

… Our previous experiments also showed that bacterial numbers in vase water containing
cut lily stems increased over time [23]. Those observations are consistent with this analysis, …

… The number of viable bacteria and fungi on freshly cut flower … 40 flower stems tested contained
> 102 viable bacteria and … Gerbera flower stems tested contained >/10 2 viable bacteria …