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IN the course of work carried out at the North of Scotland College of Agriculture on bacterial soft rot of potatoes (Bacterium carotovorum (L. R. Jones) Lehmann and Neumann), it was found difficult to isolate the causal organism from naturally infected tubers if infection had occurred through wounds. In most cases only secondary saprophytic bacteria could be isolated. Where infection had occurred through lenticels, soft-rotting bacteria were readily isolated. This was confirmed in laboratory experiments.
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KERR, A. A Method of isolating Soft-rotting Bacteria from Soils. Nature 172, 1155 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/1721155a0
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