Viability of phytopathogenic bacteria after low-temperature plasma treatment

Abstract

Low-temperature plasma (LTP) produced by Gliding Arc experimental device was used for treatment of phytopathogenic bacteria Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus, Curtobacterium albidum, Erwinia amylovora, Pseudomonas viridiflava and Xanthomonas vesicatoria with the aim to assess susceptibility of selected phytopathogenic bacteria to LTP and to estimate potential of LTP for elimination of bacteria from various materials. According to our data, LTP treatment has great potential to become cheap and relatively simple method for phytopathogenic bacteria eradication