Table 3.
Efficiencies of plating of bacteriophages from the Myoviridae, Siphoviridae, and Podoviridae on ΔrcsB, Δlsc, and wild-type isolates of Erwinia amylovora
| Family and phage isolate | Isolation host | Efficiency of platinga |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| ΔrcsBb | Δlscc | ||
| Myoviridae | |||
| ϕEa10-1 | Ea17-1-1 | 0.25 | 0.06 |
| ϕEa21-2 | Ea17-1-1 | 1.11 | 0.12 |
| ϕEa21-4 | Ea 6-4 | 1.38 | 0.02 |
| Siphoviridae | |||
| ϕEa10-19 | Ea17-1-1 | 0.64 | 0.05 |
| ϕEa35-7 | Ea110R | 5.34 | 0.26 |
| Podoviridae | |||
| ϕEa10-6 | Ea17-1-1 | 0 | 0.98 |
| ϕEa31-3 | Ea29-7 | 0 | 0.34 |
| ϕEa35-3 | Ea110R | 0.0005 | 0.23 |
| ϕEa45-1B | Ea29-7 | 0.0007 | 1.84 |
| ϕEa46-1A2 | Ea110R | 0.0003 | 0.34 |
| ϕEa50-3 | Ea29-7 | 0.0012 | 1.35 |
| ϕEa51-7 | Ea29-7 | 0.0026 | 1.44 |
a
Number of plaques on the mutant host strain divided by the number of plaques on the wild-type bacterial host. Results are from three independent experiments.
b
Amylovoran-deficient mutant.
c
Levan-deficient mutant.