Bacterial wilt, brown rot
signs of wilting during the day which may disappear in the early stages of infection. Under conditions favourable for the bacteria, the whole plant will [...] s roots on the stem. The vascular stem tissue is coloured brown and when the stem is cut, bacterial slime oozes from the wound. This is the way to distinguish [...] invades the plants through wounds or stomata and then spreads into the xylem vessels. In potato, it is tuber-borne. Spread from plant to plant results