Isolation and Characterization of Novel Lytic Bacteriophage vB_RsoP_BMB50 infecting Ralstonia solanacearum.

Ralstonia solanacearum is a soil-borne phytopathogen, and it can cause bacterial wilt disease in a variety of key crops around the world, thus resulting in enormous financial losses. However, there is a lack of effective, green, and safe prevention and control measures against increasingly devastating bacterial wilt disease. Bacteriophages (phages) are considered as potential biocontrol agents against bacterial wilt disease.