Losses in crop yields due to disease need to be reduced in order to meet increasing global
food demands associated with growth in the human population. There is a well-recognized …

Bacterial soft rot is a disease complex caused by multiple genera of gram-negative and
gram-positive bacteria, with Dickeya and Pectobacterium being the most widely studied soft …

Agriculture, together with aquaculture, supplies most of the foodstuffs required by the world
human population to survive. Hence, bacterial diseases affecting either agricultural crops …

The soft rot Pectobacteriaceae (SRP) infect a wide range of plants worldwide and cause
economic damage to crops and ornamentals but can also colonize other plants as part of …

The study of soil viruses, though not new, has languished relative to the study of marine
viruses. This is particularly due to challenges associated with separating virions from …

Pseudomonas syringae is a plant-associated bacterial species that has been divided into
more than 60 pathovars, with the Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae being the main …

Salmonella Thompson is a foodborne pathogen that has attracted attention in Korea since it
was identified as the cause of a large-scale domestic food poisoning outbreak in 2018. The …

Pectinolytic Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp. are necrotrophic bacterial pathogens of
many important crops, including potato, worldwide. This study reports on the isolation and …

Plants in nature are under the persistent intimidation of severe microbial diseases,
threatening a sustainable food production system. Plant-bacterial pathogens are a major …

Over the last years, the global production and trade of kiwifruit has been severely impacted
by Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae (Psa), a phytopathogen that causes a disease in …