Isolation and Characterization of Two Phages Infecting Streptomyces scabies

摘要

ABSTRACT Potato scab is an important wide spread disease caused by Streptomyces scabies. Actinophages affect the composition and diversity of bacterial population, thereby, can be used as biological control. Two specific phages against S. scabies were isolated from different potato fields in different locations in Giza, Egypt. Phages were partially characterized using electron microscopy and genome structure. The first phage is suggested to belong to family podoviridae and was named vB_StscP-G1.