Table 1. Incidence of Salmonella enterica contamination following sowing in non-sterile soil mixed with contaminated plant debris from a previous tomato crop.

	1 day fallow*		7 days fallow
	Phyllosphere	Rhizoplane	Phyllosphere	Rhizoplane
Seedling	2/18+	14/18	0/20	8/20
3–5 Leaf	2/15	15/15	0/12	11/12

^*Tomato seeds were sown one or seven days following crop incorporation.

⁺Number of S. enterica positive samples/number of samples tested. These data are combined from two experiments.