Detection, identification and differentiation of Pectobacterium and Dickeya species causing potato blackleg and tuber soft rot: A review

Annals of Applied Biology

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 18-38

  Czajkowski, R ^a   Perombelon M C M ^b   Jafra, S ^a   Lojkowska, E ^a   Potrykus, M ^a   Van Der Wolf, J M ^c   Sledz, W ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^b Plant Research International ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biovar; Isolation; Molecular techniques; PCR; Pectinolytic Erwinia spp; Phylogeny; Potato; Serology

Indexed keywords

ARABLE LAND; BACTERIAL DISEASE; BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROP YIELD; HORTICULTURE; LITERATURE REVIEW; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; POTATO; SUBSPECIES;

DICKEYA; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERWINIA; PECTOBACTERIUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84933034325     PISSN: 00034746     EISSN: 17447348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/aab.12166     Document Type: Review

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