*3.1. Collection and Isolation of Bacteria from Diseased Rice Leaf*

The infected leaf samples were collected from different districts of Karnataka like Kolar, Chikkaballapura, Mysuru, Tumkur, Mandya and Bellary; thirty-five bacterial isolates were isolated from samples of 85 different infected samples collected from different rice fields of Karnataka (Table 1). The Xoo was recovered from the samples collected, showing typical Xoo bacterial colony characteristics such as a yellow color and mucoid, convex colonies on plating the samples as explained by Jabeen et al. [33] (Table S1)




**Table 1.** *Cont.*

The mean values are recorded and the values are not significantly different according to Duncan's Multiple Range Test indicated by different alphabets in the superscripts at *p* < 0.05.
