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Bud midge damage on tomato(a-c), pepper(d) and Tahiti lime(e). Photo: Hernandez et al. 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 the isolation and molecular characterization of the fire blight pathogen, Erwinia amylovora, isolated from apple and pear orchards in Egypt, the characterisation and diagnosis of frangipani mosaic virus from India and the damage characteristics, potential distribution and new crop host of the bud midge Prodiplosis longifila in Colombia.

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• New host record of Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht., in Pakistan causing wilt of strawberry (Fragaria ananassa Duch.), and in vitro control.
  Veesar, M. A.; Ujjan, A. A.; Kazi, Y. F.; Ujan, J. A.; Saleem Shahzad (2015) International Journal of Biology and Biotechnology 12 (3) 423-429
• The biology of black ladybug (Paraeucosmetus pallicornis Dallas): a new pest on rice in Southeast Sulawesi.
  Rahayu, M.; Taufik, M.; Karimuna, L.; Khaeruni, A. (2015) Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences 9 (23) 282-286
• Description of new species of Tettigonia (Tettigoniinae: Orthoptera) from Pakistan.
  Riffat Sultana; Panhwar, W. A.; Wagan, M. S. (2015) Pakistan Journal of Zoology 47 (5) 1361-1364
• Ecology of weeds in wheat crops of Kalash valley, district Chitral, Hindukush Range, Pakistan.
  Fazal Hadi; Muhammad Ibrar (2015) Pakistan Journal of Weed Science Research 21 (3) 425-433
• Record of the leafroller, Amorbia cuneana (Walsingham) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) in blackberry in Rancho Huatarillo, Peribán, Michoacán.
  Juárez-Gutiérrez, A. C.; Martínez, A. M.; Figueroa, J. I.; Rebollar-Alviter, Á.; Aguilera-Peña, M. M.; Pineda, S. (2015) Acta Zoologica Mexicana 31 (2) 341-343
• Decline of jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) incited by Phytophthora palmivora in Vietnam.
  Mai Van Tri; Nguyen Van Hoa; Chau, N. M.; Pane, A.; Faedda, R.; Patrizio, A. de; Schena, L.; Olsson, C. H. B.; Wright, S. A. I.; Ramstedt, M.; Cacciola, S. O. (2015) Phytopathologia Mediterranea 54 (2) 275-280
• Diplodia bulgarica, as a new pathogen and potential threat to the apple industry in Iran.
  Abdollahzadeh, J. (2015) Phytopathologia Mediterranea 54 (1) 128-132
• Characterisation and diagnosis of frangipani mosaic virus from India.
  Alok Kumar; Vikas Solanki; Verma, H. N.; Bikash Mandal (2015) Virus Genes 51 (2) 310-314
• The bud midge Prodiplosis longifila: damage characteristics, potential distribution and presence on a new crop host in Colombia.
  Hernandez, L. M.; Guzman, Y. C.; Martínez-Arias, A.; Manzano, M. R.; Selvaraj, J. J. (2015) SpringerPlus 4 (205) (30 April 2015)
• Isolation and molecular characterization of the fire blight pathogen, Erwinia amylovora, isolated from apple and pear orchards in Egypt.
  Ashmawy, N. A.; Zaghloul, T. I.; El-Sabagh, M. A. (2015) Plant Pathology Journal (Faisalabad) 14 (3) 142-147

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