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Symptoms of tomato ringspot virus © Gerald Holmes, California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, Bugwood.org


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 the genetic divergence of tomato ringspot virus, species of the Colletotrichum acutatum complex associated with anthracnose diseases of fruit in Brazil and the first report of Teratosphaeria gauchensis causing stem canker of Eucalyptus in Kenya.

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