Table 1.

Plant pathogenic bacteria utilized in this study.

Plant Pathogenic Species	Strain Nos. a	Disease	Country of Isolation	Year of Isolation	Reference
Pectobacterium carotovorum	IFB5118 SCRI136	Blackleg	USA	NA	SCRI collection [51]
Pectobacterium atrosepticum	IFB5103 SCRI1086	Blackleg and soft rot	Canada	1985	SCRI collection [51]
Dickeya solani	IFB0099 IPO2276 LMG28824	Blackleg and soft rot	Poland	2005	Slawiak et al. [52]

^a The presented strain numbers were attributed by the following international bacterial collections: IFB—bacterial collection of the Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of University of Gdansk and Medical University of Gdansk (Gdansk, Poland); SCRI—The James Hutton Institute bacterial collection (Dundee, Scotland); IPO—bacterial collection of the Institute for Phytopathological Research (Wageningen, The Netherlands); LMG—bacterial collection of the Laboratory of Microbiology in Gent (Gent, Belgium).