DISEASE: Bacterial blast and fruit spot
HOST: Avocado
White bacterial ooze on surface of fruit. Pseudomonas strains that cause canker likely differ from those that infect fruit and leaves.
Bacterial blast and fruit spot | Avocado
DISEASE: Bacterial blast and fruit spot
HOST: Avocado (Persea americana)
PATHOGEN: Pseudomonas syringae
SOURCE: L. Fucikovsky
DISEASE: Ratoon stunt
HOST: Sugarcane
Necrotic, reddish vascular bundles in node of sliced stalk, a diagnostic symptom.
Ratoon stunt | Sugarcane
DISEASE: Ratoon stunt
HOST: Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum)
PATHOGEN: Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli
SOURCE: D. Teakle
DISEASE: Ratoon stunt
HOST: Sugarcane
Disease of susceptible cultivar L62-96 (right). External symptoms are characterized by stunting and poor growth.
Ratoon stunt | Sugarcane
DISEASE: Ratoon stunt
HOST: Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum)
PATHOGEN: Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli
SOURCE: A. Gillaspie, M. Davis
DISEASE: Ratoon stunt
HOST: Sugarcane
Red discoloration just below nodal tissues is a symptom in mature stalks of 'L41-233'.
Ratoon stunt | Sugarcane
DISEASE: Ratoon stunt
HOST: Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum)
PATHOGEN: Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli
SOURCE: A. Gillaspie, M. Davis
DISEASE: Ratoon stunt
HOST: Sugarcane
Row of disease 'Trojan' plants (left). Healthy row (right).
Ratoon stunt | Sugarcane
DISEASE: Ratoon stunt
HOST: Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum 'Trojan')
PATHOGEN: Leifsonia xyli subsp. xyli
SOURCE: D. Teakle
DISEASE: X-disease (Western X) or buckskin
HOST: Cherry
Comparison of normal, dark cherries (in hand) with infected, immature cherries with less pigmentation.
X-disease (Western X) or buckskin | Cherry
DISEASE: X-disease (Western X) or buckskin
HOST: Cherry (Prunus avium)
PATHOGEN: 'Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni'
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Phytoplasma X-disease group
SOURCE: A. Purcell, M. Davis
DISEASE: X-disease (Western X) or buckskin
HOST: Cherry
Healthy cherry shoot (left) and stunted shoot (right).
X-disease (Western X) or buckskin | Cherry
DISEASE: X-disease (Western X) or buckskin
HOST: Cherry (Prunus avium)
PATHOGEN: 'Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni'
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Phytoplasma X-disease group
SOURCE: S. Thomson
DISEASE: X-disease (Western X) or buckskin
HOST: Cherry
Infected trees on 'Mazzard' rootstock (right) may live for years, producing fruit with symptoms. Trees on 'Mahaleb' rootstock (left) usually die rapidly in year of infection, about time of fruit ripening.
X-disease (Western X) or buckskin | Cherry
DISEASE: X-disease (Western X) or buckskin
HOST: Cherry (Prunus avium)
PATHOGEN: 'Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni'
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Phytoplasma X-disease group
SOURCE: S. Thomson
DISEASE: X-disease (Western X) or buckskin
HOST: Cherry
X-disease causes undersized, yellowish fruit. Diseased branches turn rusty red near end of season. Some defoliation occurs on diseased branches.
X-disease (Western X) or buckskin | Cherry
DISEASE: X-disease (Western X) or buckskin
HOST: Cherry (Prunus cerasus)
PATHOGEN: 'Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni'
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Phytoplasma X-disease group
SOURCE: A. Jones