TY - JOUR N2 - Strawberry leaves showing leaf blight symptoms were collected from six different farms in Ismailia and Beheira Governorates in Egypt during the 2020–2021 growing season. Eight bacterial isolates, i.e., Pa1, Pa2, Pa3, Pa4 (Ismailia farms) and Pa5, Pa6, Pa7 and Pa8 (Beheira farms) were isolated. A pathogenicity test of bacterial isolates was carried out using detached strawberry leaf technique. All bacterial isolates produced leaf blight disease symptoms. Isolates Pa2 and Pa6 showed the highest pathogenic characteristics with clear symptoms on detached strawberry leaves. The phenotypic, biochemical and physiological characters of the highest pathogenic isolates were confirmed by PCR analysis using 16S rRNA gene. The two bacterial isolates were identified as Pantoea ananatis with similarity of 97.05% with accession number MH_127816.1 (isolate Pa2, Ismailia), while the isolate ( Pa6, Beheira) with similarity of 97.03% with accession number NR_026045.1. The 16S rDNA sequences were deposited in the GenBank nucleotide databases under accession numbers OM258167 and OM279507, respectively. According to the pathogenicity test, morphological and physiological characteristics as well as molecular data (16S rRNA sequencing analysis), this finding is the first report of P. ananatis as a causal agent of strawberry leaf blight disease in Egypt. L1 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/123768/PDF-MASTER/OA_07_JPPR_62_2_1264_Abdel-Gaied.pdf L2 - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/123768 PY - 2022 IS - No 2 EP - 214 DO - 10.24425/jppr.2022.141359 KW - Pantoea ananatis KW - leaf blight KW - polymerase chain reaction (PCR) KW - 16S rRNA KW - strawberry A1 - Abdel-Gaied, Tarek Gomaa A1 - Abd-El-Khair, Hassan A1 - Youssef, Maryan Makram A1 - El-Maaty, Shereen Abu A1 - Mikhail, Maurice Sabry PB - Committee of Plant Protection PAS PB - Institute of Plant Protection – National Research Institute VL - vol. 62 DA - 2022.07.10 T1 - First report of strawberry bacterial leaf blight caused by Pantoea ananatis in Egypt SP - 207 UR - http://czasopisma.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/123768 T2 - Journal of Plant Protection Research ER -