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Bacterial Soft rot
Bacterial soft rot is caused by Erwinia carotovora. Host plants are potato, onion, carrot, tomato, beans, corn, cotton, crucifers and some others.
Sign and Symptoms
For each host there are different symptoms displayed.
Most symptoms are along the lines of watery and soft decay of the tissue.
Crucifers' symptoms start where the tissue makes contact with the soil.
Often there is a change in color and in the case of a carrot,
Potatoes experience a cream to tan colored tuber that becomes very soft and watery.
The stem also rots and becomes mushy with its colorless or brown lesions.

Ideal conditions
Moisture in soil.
Soil worms.
Weeds and insects.

Prevention
Do not plant infected seed.
Control weeds and insects.
Avoid harvesting under wet conditions.
Dry tubers quickly.

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