The Plantwise Blog

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 Pyricularia oryzae affecting barley crops in Corrientes, Argentina, the incidence of cereal cyst nematodes in the East Anatolia region of Turkey and new aphid records for Saudi Arabia.

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• New aphid records for Saudi Arabia (Hemiptera: Aphidoidea).
  Sabir Hussain; Yousif Aldryhim; Al-Dhafer, H.; Halbert, S. E.; Thomas, J. (2015) Zoology in the Middle East 61 (4) 368-371
• Steinernema papillatum n. sp. (Rhabditida: Steinernematidae), a new entomopathogenic nematode from Venezuela.
  San-Blas, E.; Portillo, E.; Nermut´, J.; Vladimír Půža, P. M. M. (2015) Nematology 17 (9) 1081-1097
• New species of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) from South and Central America.
  Galileo, M. H. M.; Santos-Silva, A.; Tirant, S. le (2015) ZooKeys (530) 101-111
• Molecular analysis of Phytophthora diversity in nursery-grown ornamental and fruit plants.
  Prigigallo, M. I.; Mosca, S.; Cacciola, S. O.; Cooke, D. E. L.; Schena, L. (2015) Plant Pathology 64 (6) 1308-1319
• Root lesion nematode associated to mango seedling in Assu-RN.
  Torres, G. R. de C.; Sales Júnior, R.; Houllou, L. M.; Negreiros, A. M. P. (2015) Revista Caatinga 28 (4) 135-141
• First report of Tomato chlorotic spot virus in scarlet eggplant (Solanum aethiopicum) and American black nightshade (Solanum americanum) in the United States.
  Badillo-Vargas, I. E.; Roe, N.; Funderburk, J. E.; Adkins, S. (2015) Plant Disease 99 (10) 1450-1451
• First report of the sub-Saharan Africa 2 species of the Bemisia tabaci complex in the Southern France.
  Hadjistylli, M.; Roderick, G. K.; Gauthier, N. (2015) Phytoparasitica 43 (5) 679-687
• Pyricularia oryzae affecting barley crops in Corrientes (Argentina).
  Gutiérrez, S. A.; Cúndom, M. A. (2015) Summa Phytopathologica 41 (4) 318-320
• Insects related to olive culture in Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil.
  Ricalde, M. P.; Nava, D. E.; Loeck, A. E.; Coutinho, E. F.; Bisognin, A.; Garcia, F. R. M. (2015) Ciência Rural 45 (12) 2125-2130
• Incidence of cereal cyst nematodes in the East Anatolia region in Turkey.
  Toktay, H.; İmren, M.; Öcal, A.; Waeyenberge, L.; Viaene, N.; Dababat, A. (2015) Russian Journal of Nematology 23 (1) 29-40

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