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Pear psyllas deposit honeydew on leaves and cause wilting and defoliation © Whitney Cranshaw (CC-BY)

We’ve selected a few of the latest new geographic, host and species records for plant pests and diseases from CAB Abstracts. Records this fortnight include a new psylla pest reported on pear trees in Egypt,  the first report of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum‘ on pepper in Honduras and the first report of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum causing sclerotinia blight on peanut in northeastern China. 

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• The leaf beetle, Tricliona nr nigra Jacoby (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), a new pest damaging pomegranate, Punica granatum. 
  Jayanthi, P. D. K.; Abraham Verghese (2014) Phytoparasitica 42 (1) 53-55.
• Attacks of Pythium aphanidermatum on Beta vulgaris L. subsp. vulgaris in Northern Italy. 
  Giovanna, G.; Ortu, G.; Gullino, M. L.; Garibaldi, A. (2013) Protezione delle Colture 1, 40-42.
• Occurrence of black rot of carrots in the state of Maranhão. 
  Silva, G. S. da; Costa, D. L. M. de M. (2013) Summa Phytopathologica 39 (4) 294.
• Bipolaris sorghicola an emerging pathogen in sorghum crops in NE Argentina. 
  Cúndom, M. A.; Cabrera, M. G.; Gutiérrez, S. A. (2013) Summa Phytopathologica 39 (4) 295-296.
• First report of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ on pepper in Honduras. 
  Munyaneza, J. E.; Sengoda, V. G.; Aguilar, E.; Bextine, B.; McCue, K. F. (2014) Plant Disease 98 (1) 154.
• Pear psylla Cacopsylla bidens (Šulc, 1907): a new pest on pear trees in Egypt (Hemiptera: Psylloidea). 
  Mohamed, G. H.; Ouvrard, D.; Fatma, A. M. (2013) Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences: Entomology 6 (3) 49-52.
• First report of root and stem rot of soybean caused by Phytophthora sojae in Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil. 
  Roese, A. D.; Goulart, A. C. P. (2013) Summa Phytopathologica 39 (4) 293.
• Occurrence of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. allii causing onion bacterial blight in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. 
  Pereira, I. S.; Tebaldi, N. D. (2013) Summa Phytopathologica 39 (4) 297.
• First report of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum causing sclerotinia blight on peanut (Arachis hypogaea) in northeastern China. 
  Yan, L. Y.; Kang, Y. P.; Lei, Y.; Huang, J. Q.; Wan, L. Y.; Liao, B. S. (2014) Plant Disease 98 (1) 156-157.
• Damping-off of broccoli caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG-2-1.
  Misawa, T.; Yamazaki, K.; Takada, K. (2013) Annual Report of the Society of Plant Protection of North Japan 64, 60-64.

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