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Physiological and Biochemical Variations in Soft Rot Pathogen (Pectobacterium chrysanthemi) Isolates of Aloe vera

Volume : 99
Issue: Apr-jun
Pages: 338 - 343
Published: May 03, 2023
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Abstract


All the 15 isolates of Pectobacterium chrysanthemi survived up to 37 0 C and the thermal death point was 38 0 C. The optimum range of pH for the growth of the isolates was 7.0–7.5.Although all the isolates showed good growth in many carbon sources, salicin supported the maximum growth while ribose was the least favourable. These isolates showed no differences in all the biochemical tests. All the 15 isolates of P. chrysanthemi gave positive result to utilization of citrate, nitrate reductase test, catalase test, Oxidation-Fermentation test (O- F test), Gelatin liquefaction, casein hydrolysis, anaerobic growth and sensitively to erythromycin while these showed negative reaction to indole production test, starch hydrolysis, H 2 S production, oxidase test methyl red and Voges Proskauer test and arginine dihydrolase reaction.

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338 - 343
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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Aloe vera pectobacterium chrysanthemi physiological and biochemical variation.
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