“…Soft rot, fleshy crop targeting bacterial disease with outbreak possibility during all the stages of crop production-in the field, during transit and storage, and even during marketing-is thought to be primarily caused by bacteria from genus Erwinia as well (Charkowski, 2006;Bhat et al, 2010). Strains of E. persicina, the host of novel Erwiniainfecting bacteriophage Midgardsormr38, in addition to insect gut as in present study, were previously isolated not only from plant sources such as lucerne, soybean, garlic, onions, common bean, pea, cucumber, tomato, melon, apple, and pear but also from human urinary tract and even biofilms from paleolithic rock paintings (Hao et al, 1990;O'Hara et al, 1998;Kiessling et al, 2005;Zhang and Nan, 2014). Although not common, some of the Erwinia species (e.g., Erwinia billingae, E. persicina, and Erwinia tasmaniensis-like organism) were found to be associated with disease in humans (O'Hara et al, 1998;Shin et al, 2008;Prod'homme et al, 2017).…”