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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
The 25 isolates of Ralstonia solanacearum, a wilt causing bacterium collected from different agro-climatic zones of Karnataka and other parts of India tested for their ability of to oxidize and utilize disaccharides and hexahydric alcohols tested in the present study revealed that, 20 isolates of R. solanacearum isolated from tomato, potato, brinjal, bird of paradise, capsicum and coleus belonged to biovar-III. The five isolates viz. KERT-I, HRP, KERG-I, KERG-2 and HRG isolated from tomato, potato and three from ginger behaved differently and were unable to utilize dulcitol and lactose and were categorized as biovar-IIIB.