“…The occurrence of pectolytic enterobacteria causing soft rot have been previously reported in different plants such as radish (Goto and Matsumoto, 1987), aglaonema (Chao et al, 2006), dieffenbachia (MacFadden, 1961Nieves-Brun et al, 1985), tulip (Boyraz et al, 2006), syngonium (Alippi and Lopez, 2009), potato, tomato, carrot and cabbage (Maisuria and Nerurkar, 2013), artichoke (Loreti et al, 2001), sweet potato, chinese cabbage and eggplant (Golkhandan et al, 2013). The key objective of this research was to identify Pectobacterium spp.…”