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RESULTS

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DISEASE: Bacterial finger-tip rot

HOST: Banana

Cross sections of fruit with internal discoloration and rot. This disease is also known as Mokillo disease.

DISEASE: Bacterial finger-tip rot

HOST: Banana

Longitudinal sections of fruit with internal discoloration and rot. Healthy (right).

DISEASE: Bacterial finger-tip rot

HOST: Banana

Diseased banana hand with external discoloration.

DISEASE: Gumming disease

HOST: Sugarcane

Symptoms include brownish red streaks on leaves with apical chlorosis. Streaks become necrotic with time. Plants are stunted with reddening of vascular bundles.

DISEASE: Pink disease

HOST: Pineapple

Infected pineapple slices; effect of heating (right) and not heating (left).

DISEASE: Pink disease

HOST: Pineapple

Two clones (A and D) showing different stages of infection. Second and fourth fruits (left to right) have been heated. Disease originally attributed to Gluconobacter oxydans and Enterobacter agglomerans and later to Pantoea citrea.