Differentiation tests between the plant pathogenic bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae and K. variicola

Abstract

Biochemical characterization of genomically closely related Klebsiella pneumoniae and K. variicola The pure cultures of both K. pneumoniae (causes root bark necrosis and wilt in pomegranate plant) and K. variicola (collected from Microbial Culture Collection Centre, Pune, India) were used for the