Abstract—Disease outbreaks due to contaminated food are a major concern not only for the food-processing industry but also for the public at large. Techniques for automated detection and classification of microorganisms can be a great help in preventing outbreaks and maintaining the safety of the nation’s food supply. Identification and classification of foodborne pathogens using colony sca…
Abstract. This study was aimed at generating microscopic evidence of intra-tissue colonization in banana in support of the previous findings on widespread association of endophytic bacteria with the shoot tips of fieldgrown plants and micropropagated cultures, and to understand the extent of tissue colonization. Leaf-sheath tissue sections (~50–100 μm) from aseptically gathered shoot ti…