The soft rot inducing bacterium Pectobacterium brasiliense is considered one of the most virulent species among the Pectobacteriaceae. P. brasiliense affects a wide range of economically important crops and causes serious damages. In 2019 a bacterial disease was confirmed on Zamioculcas zamiifolia plants derived from commercial ornamental plant nurseries on the island of Crete in Greece. Pectobacterium brasiliense was isolated...

Tomato bacterial canker, caused by Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis ( Cmm ) (Li et al. 2018), is a common destructive disease worldwide. The bacterium colonizes plant’s vascular system causing characteristic symptoms such as wilting, cankers, brown and black discoloration of vessels, white spots on the fruit and leaves. In the present work, isolates were collected from infected tomato plants of 11 Greek Prefectur...