Fuente: WIPO "tomato" Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for increasing culture stability of a bacterial culture comprising a plurality of a modified bacterium comprising a modified prophage. Also disclosed herein are methods and compositions for decreasing the likelihood of replication of a modified prophage in a bacterial genome as compared to the likelihood of replication of a corresponding prophage lacking the prophage modification in a corresponding bacterial genome. Also disclosed herein are methods and compositions for preventing excision of a prophage in a bacterium. Also disclosed herein are methods and compositions for generating a modified prophage having an impaired ability to lyse a host bacterial cell.