Bacteria as plant pathogens can cause severe economically damaging diseases, ranging from spots, mosaic patterns or pustules on leaves and fruits, or smelly tuber rots to plant death. They do great harm to many agricultural crops, especially cotton, tobacco, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, and cucumbers. The diseases may be systemic causing the death of the entire plant or individual parts thereof; they may appear on the roots or in the vascular system [vascular disease or local limited to infection of individual parts or organs of the plant and also appearing in parenchymatous tissues, or they may be of a mixed nature.
Related Journals to Bacterial Diseases of Plants
Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Plant Biochemistry & Physiology, Plant Physiology & Pathology, Horticulture,Trends in Plant Science, Current Opinion in Plant Biology, Fungal Diversity, Functional Plant Biology, Fungal Ecology, Plant and Soil, Phytopathology, Molecular Plant Pathology