Acknowledgement
This work was supported by Korea Institute of Planning and Evaluation for Technology in Food, Agriculture, and Forestry (IPET), through Development of new control methods for bacterial fruit rots through analysis of the pathogenicity of the pathogen (120088-05-2). This research has been worked with the support of a research grant of Kangwon National University in 2021.
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