Cabbages treated to control post-harvest diseases
AssigneeThe Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in Her Britannic Majesty's Government of the U.K. of Gt. Britian & N. Ireland
InventorsCarlo Leifert, Harold A. S. Epton, David C. Sigee
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Abstract
Growth of organisms of the post-harvest disease causing fungi Botrytis cinerea and Alternaria brassicicola is inhibited by applying to vegetables of the Brassica family, particularly cabbage, isolates of bacteria of species Pseudomonas fluorescens, Serratia liquefaciens, Serratia plymuthica, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus pumilis and Bacillus polymyxa.
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A cabbage having applied thereto an isolated bacteria having the identifying characteristics of an isolate selected from the group consisting of Bacillus pumilus NCIMB 40489, Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 40490, Bacillus subtillis NCIMB 40491, Serratia liquefaciens NCIMB 40492, Serratia plymuthica NCIMB 40493, Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 40495, and Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 40497 including the characteristic of being capable of inhibiting growth of fungi of species Alternaria brassicicola on homogenized cabbage tissue:agar:water mixtures.
A cabbage having applied thereto an isolated bacteria having the identifying characteristics of an isolate selected from the group consisting of Bacillus pumilus NCIMB 40489, Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 40490, Bacillus subtillis NCIMB 40491, Serratia liquefaciens NCIMB 40492, Serratia plymuthica NCIMB 40493, NCIMB 40494,! Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 40495, and Pseudomonas fluorescens NCIMB 40497 including the characteristic of being capable of inhibiting growth of fungi of species Botrytis cinerea on homogenized cabbage tissue:agar:water mixtures.
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