Studies on Bacterial Soft Rot Disease of Potato Tuber : Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora.(Jones) Dye

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is one of the most important vegetable crops in Egypt. Many diseases attack potato in the field and during storage as well. They cause great and destructive losses to the crop, since the diseases cause massive deterioration leading to the loss of hundreds of tons in a matter of days. Soft rot disease causes severe losses to potato tubers as well as to many other vegetable crops.