1.Altschul, S.F., Gish, W., Miller, W., Myers, E.W. and Lipman, D.J. 1990. Basic local alignment search tool. J. Mol. Biol., 215: 403-410.

2.Bhosale, J. 2013. Emerson Climate Technologies India, a business of the US-based manufacturing and technology company Emerson. ET Bureau, 02: 3 PM, IST.

3.Chudasama, K.S. and Thaker, V.S. 2012. Screening of potential antimicrobial compounds against Xanthomonas campestris from 100 essential oils of aromatic plants used in India: An ecofriendly approach. Arch. Phytopathol. Pflanzenschutz., 45(7): 783-795.

4.Costacurta, A. and Vanderleyden, J. 1995. Synthesis of phytohormones by plant associated bacteria. Crit. Rev. Microbiol., 21: 1-18.

5.Dennis, C. 1983. Post-harvest pathology of fruits and vegetables. Acad. Press, London.

6.Droby, S. 2006. Improving quality and safety of fresh fruits and vegetables after harvest by the use of biocontrol agents and natural materials. In International Symposium on Natural Preservatives in Food Systems, 709: 45-51.

7.Franzetti, L. and Scarpeluni, M. 2007. Characterization of Pseudomonas spp. isolated from foods. Ann. Microbiol., 57: 39-47.

8.Jameson, P.E. 2000. Cytokinins and auxins in plant-pathogen interactions - an overview. Plant Growth Regul., 32: 369- 380.

9.Kumar, A., Bhargava, P. and Ch, Lal. 2010. Isolation and molecular characterization of phosphate solubilizing Enterobacter and Exiguobacterium species from paddy fields of Eastern Uttar Pradesh, India. Afr. J. Microbiol. Res., 4(9): 820-829.

10.Lee, D.H., Kim, J.B., Kim, M., Roh, E., Jung, K., Choi, M., Oh, C., Choi, J., Yun, J. and Heu, S. 2013. Microbiota on spoiled vegetables and their characterization. J Food Protect., 76(8): 1350-1358.

11.Manulis, S., Shafrir, H., Epstein, E., Lichter, A. and Barash, I. 1994. Biosynthesis of indole-3- acetic acid via the indole- 3-acetamide pathway in Streptomyces spp. Microbiol., 140: 1045-1050.

12.Mathur, A., Joshi, A. and Harwani, D. 2014. Microbial contamination of raw fruits and vegetables. Int. J. Food Saf. Nutr. Public Health., 16: 26-28.

13.Muhammad, S., Shehu, K., Amusa, N.A. 2004. Survey of the market diseases and aflatoxin contamination of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum MILL) fruits in Sokoto North Western Nigeria. Nutr Food Sci., 34: 72-76.

14.Nguyen, C. and Carlin, F. 1994. The microbiology of minimally processed fresh fruits and vegetables. Crit. Rev. Food Sci. Nutr., 34: 371-401.

15.Robert, B.A., Jeffrey, C.A. and Gregory, B.M. 2006. Bacterial elicitation and evasion of plant innate immunity. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol. 7(8): 601-611.

16.Schroeder, B.K. and du Toit, L.J. 2009. First Report of Enterobacter cloacae causing onion bulb rot in the columbia basin of washington state. Plant Dis., 93(3): 323.

17.Sharma, N., Garcha, S. and Singh, S. 2013. Potential of Lactococcus lactis subspecies lactis MTCC 3041 as a bio preservative. J. Microbiol. Biotechnol. Food Sci., 3(2): 168-171.

18.Sudheer, K.P. 2007. Indira V. Post harvest technology of horticultural, Pitam Pura, New Delhi, New India Publication, pp. 01-05.

19.Surico, G., Iacobellis, N.S. and Sisto, N.S. 1985. Studies on the role of indole-3-acetic acid and cytokinins in the formation of knots on olive and oleander plants by Pseudomonas syringae pv. savastanoi. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol., 26: 309-320.

20.Suzuki, S., He, Y., Oyaizu, H. 2003. Indole-3-acetic acid production in Pseudomonas fluorescens HP72 and its association with suppression of creeping bentgrass brown patch. Curr. Microbiol., 47(2): 0138-0143.

21.Tripathi, P., Dubey, N.K. and Shukla, A.K. 2008. Use of some essential oils as post-harvest botanical fungicides in the management of grey mould of grapes caused by Botrytis cinerea. World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 24: 39-46.

22.Valdezate, S., Vindel, A., Martín–Dávila, P., Saz, B.S.D., Baquero, F. and Cantón, R. 2004. High genetic diversity among Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strains despite their originating at a single hospital. J Clin. Microbiol., 42(2): 693-699.

23.Vishnivetskaya, T.A., Kathariou, S. and Tiedje, S.M. 2009. Exiguobacterium genus: Biodiversity and biogeography. Extremophiles. 13: 541-55 5.