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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 new hosts (lettuce and wild rocket) of Fusarium equiseti in Italy, studies on occurrence of entomopathogenic nematodes in India and the first detection of tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) on Amaranthus thunbergii in South Africa.

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• Analysis of actin sequences from Epichloë endophyte in Festuca sinensis.
  Kuang Yu; Wang JianJun; Xu WenBo; Tian Pei (2016) Acta Prataculturae Sinica 25 (9) 125-131.
• A population of the Italy species (=biotype T) of the Bemisia tabaci species complex discovered for the first time in Campania region (southern Italy).
  Parrella, G.; Cozzolino, A.; Manco, E.; Stinca, A.; Formisano, G.; Giorgini, M. (2016) Protezione delle Colture (4) 28-30.
• Lettuce and wild rocket: new hosts of Fusarium equiseti in Italy.
  Gilardi, G.; Ortu, G.; Gullino, M. L.; Garibaldi, A. (2016) Protezione delle Colture (2) 45-46.
• Rhizoctonia solani AG-1, a new parasite of Lavandula stoechas, Campanula rapunculoides and C. tracheliumin Liguria and Piedmont.
  Bertetti, D.; Ortu, G.; Pensa, P.; Gullino, M. L.; Garibaldi, A. (2016) Protezione delle Colture (2) 41-42.
• New telluric parasites found on ornamentals in Liguria and Piedmont: Sclerotinia sclerotiorum of Lavandula stoechas and Gaillardia × grandiflora and Fusarium oxysporum of Echeveria tolimanensis.
  Bertetti, D.; Ortu, G.; Pensa, P.; Gullino, M. L.; Garibaldi, A. (2016) Protezione delle Colture (2) 39-40.
• Botrytis cinerea and Stagonosporopsis trachelii, new pests of Salvia oxyphora and Campanula medium in Piedmont.
  Bertetti, D.; Ortu, G.; Gullino, M. L.; Garibaldi, A. (2016) Protezione delle Colture (2) 37-38.
• Proceedings Of the Plant Treatment Meetings 2016, Turin, March 16, 2016.
  (2016) Protezione delle Colture (2) 2-77.
• Attacks of Phoma tropica on lettuce in Northern Italy.
  Gilardi, G.; Ortu, G.; Gullino, M. L.; Garibaldi, A. (2016) Protezione delle Colture (1) 29-30.
• Studies on occurrence of EPN, their pathogenic and biotic potential properties.
  Istkhar; Chaubey, A. K. (2016) Annals of Plant Protection Sciences 24 (2) 402-407.
• First detection of Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) on Amaranthus thunbergii in South Africa.
  Kisten, L.; Moodley, V.; Gubba, A.; Mafongoya, P. L. (2016) Plant Disease 100 (11) 2176.

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