TABLE 3.
Species | No. of isolates | No. of isolates with an onion pathogenicity rating ofa:
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0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||
B. cepacia | 160 | 0 | 23 | 52 | 85 |
B. cenocepacia | 480 | 0 | 46 | 174 | 260 |
B. ambifaria | 623 | 4 | 143 | 223 | 253 |
B. pyrrocinia | 27 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 1 |
The positive control strain B. cepacia ATCC 25416 was included in each pathogenicity assay and consistently produced a pathogenicity rating of 3.