“…The presence of this pathogen on several hundred species representing 44 families of plants has been recorded (4). In Taiwan, the pathogen has been reported to occur on tomato, tobacco, potato, sweet pepper, eggplant, peanut, birdof-paradise (40), strawberry, perilla (Perilla crispa) (22), castor bean, sesame, radish (26), anthurium (37), and eustoma (Eustoma grandiflorum L.) (5) plants. R. solanacearum strains represent a heterogeneous group that has been subdivided into five races on the basis of host range (3; I. W. Buddenhagen, L. Sequeira, and A. Kelman, abstr., Phytopathology 52:726, 1962) or five biovars based on the ability to oxidize certain disaccharides and hexose alcohols (19,20).…”