Sooner or later, they will open the way for soft rot, a foul-smelling bacterial infection, which kills more plants than borers do.

The disease is characterized by a soft watery rot that starts at the point of detachment of the fruit.

Fruits that develop will soft rot and drop off the tree.

The presence of a soft rot may be an indication of a bacterial disease.

However, many other organisms and plant disorders may appear as various soft rot or black lesions.

The disease causes a watery soft rot of the internal portion of the storage root.

There are many ways in which a plant can become infected by a bacterial soft rot.

Almost all fresh vegetables are subject to infection by bacterial soft rots.

All in all, bacterial soft rots cause a greater loss of produce than any other bacterial disease known.

This causes the cells to separate, a disease plant pathologists term bacterial soft rot.