Figure 1. Naturally infected postharvest sweet orange fruit showing pure culture and morphological phenotypes.

Isolated bacterial pure colony ( A) BS1 and ( C) BS2; images taken after 16 hours of incubation at 37°C on LB agar. Gram staining of isolated bacterial pure colony ( B) BS1 and ( D) BS2; images taken under the light microscope at 100X magnification, showing as Gram negative.