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Potato Seed Decay and Stand Loss is Not Caused by Dickeya Spread during Cutting and Handling of Seed Potatoes
2021-02-01
Abstract excerpt
Soft rot bacteria are the main cause of early seed decay and stand losses in field grown potatoes. These bacteria are present in most surface water and colonize lenticels of early generation seed potatoes and cause disease when conditions are favorable for bacterial growth. Soft rot bacteria, formerly in the genus Erwinia, have been reclassified into the genera Dickeya and Pectobacterium. Because of their ubiquito...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 78fb85b9-b44a-5e65-9064-feae5e026aef
- DOI
- 10.1007/s12230-020-09818-9
