Pleiochaeta setosa. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].

Author(s):  
M. B. Ellis

Abstract A description is provided for Pleiochaeta setosa. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: Parasitic on Crotalaria, Cytisus, Lupinus, Ornithopus and Phaseolus. DISEASE: Causes leaf, stem and pod lesions on Cytisus and Lupinus spp. ; also recorded on Crotalaria and Phaseolus vulgaris. On pods and leaves the lesions are circular to very irregular, varying considerably in size, up to 1 cm or more diameter. They are characteristically zonate and result in dieback and wilt. The seeds are attacked and there is a brown discoloration of the seed coat. On branches and leading shoots the lesions are elongate-oval, up to 2 cm long, with sharply alternating light brown and black zones (13, 166; 16, 636; 17, 185, 686; 19, 99; 28, 457; 29, 29; 37, 724; 50, 1863). GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Widespread in Europe; also Africa (South Africa); Asia (Israel, Japan, W. Malaysia, Sri Lanka); Australia (NSW, Qd, W. Australia); America (south-east USA, Brazil) (CMI Map 243, ed. 2, 1967). TRANSMISSION: Seed-borne (17, 824; 19, 99; 40, 111).

Author(s):  
K. G. Mukerji

Abstract A description is provided for Eremothecium ashbyi. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: On Gossypium hirsutum and also on other species of Gossypium. DISEASE: Stigmatomycosis or cotton boll rot and staining of the lint. The lint becomes discoloured and the seed coat is stained brown in spots (30: 124). GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Sudan, South Africa and U.S.A. (Tarr, 1955). TRANSMISSION: Mechanical transmission by hemipterous insects.


Author(s):  
A. Sivanesan

Abstract A description is provided for Cochliobolus australiensis. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: Chloris, Cymbopogon, Cynodon, Hordeum, Lolium, Oryza, Panicum, Pennisetum, Saccharum, Triticum, Zea, on or isolated from a wide variety of dicotyledons, air, soil and plant debris. DISEASE: Leaf blight of citronella grass (61: 2332), leaf spot of bajra (pearl millet 47: 1862, 48: 1229) and seed-borne (55: 1788). The disease is associated with the anamorph. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Egypt, India, Iraq, Japan, Kenya, Libya, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Zimbabwe. TRANSMISSION: By infected seeds, and air-borne conidia.


Author(s):  
E. Punithalingam

Abstract A description is provided for Phomopsis tersa. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: Passiflora edulis, P. edulis cv. Flavicarpa and Passilqora sp. (Passifloraceae). DISEASE: Post-harvest stem end rot of passion fruit. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Africa (Mauritius); Europe (Malta, Portugal); America (South America: Brazil); Asia (Malaysia, Sarawak, Sri Lanka); Australasia & Oceania (Australia: Queensland; Fiji). TRANSMISSION: Most probably by water-borne conidia during wet or humid conditions. It is also possible that conidia could be disseminated by contaminated knives during harvesting.


Author(s):  
P. M. Kirk

Abstract A description is provided for Gongronella butleri. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: From soil. DISEASE: None as a primary pathogen of plants; encountered as a secondary invader or as a saprobe. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Trinidad, Uganda, Uraguay, UK, USA (Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin), former USSR, Zambia. TRANSMISSION: Movement of soil, or water-borne dispersal of sporangiospores.


Author(s):  
P. M. Kirk

Abstract A description is provided for Pithomyces graminicola. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: Brachiaria, Caryota, Elaeis, Ipomoea, Phaseolus, Pinus, Saccharum, Solanum, Sorghum, Stylosanthes; also from air and soil. DISEASE: None as a primary pathogen of plants; frequently encountered as a secondary invader or as a saprophyte. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: AFRICA: Nigeria, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe. ASIA: India, Sri Lanka. AUSTRALASIA & OCEANIA: Australia, Solomon Islands. CENTRAL AMERICA & WEST INDIES: Honduras. TRANSMISSION: By unknown means.


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Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Xanthomonas albilineans (Ashby) Dowson. Hosts: Sugarcane (Saccharum). Information is given on the geographical distribution in AFRICA, Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Reunion, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, ASIA, Burma, India, Indonesia, Japan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, AUSTRALASIA & OCEANIA, Australia, Fiji, Hawaii, CENTRAL AMERICA & WEST INDIES, Barbados, Cuba, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Panama, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Trinidad, SOUTH AMERICA, Argentina, Brazil (Sao Paulo, Sergipe), Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela.


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Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Hoplolaimus pararobustus (Sen. Stek.& Teun.) Sher in Coomans Nematoda: Hoplolaimidae Hosts: Polyphagous, including banana, coffee, tea and a range of crops. Information is given on the geographical distribution in ASIA, China, Guangxi, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, AFRICA, Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Congo Democratic Republic, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Gambia, Guinea, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Reunion, Sao Tome & Principe Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zimbabwe, CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN, Dominica, Grenada, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenadines.


Author(s):  
P. M. Kirk

Abstract A description is provided for Memnoniella echinata. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: Abutilon, Achyranthes, Allium, Amorphophallus, Bombax, Brassica, Calotropis, Camellia, Carica, Cassia, Corchorus, Coriandrum, Cosmos, Citrus, Datura, Dianthus, Eucalyptus, Fagus, Glycine, Gmelina, Hehanthus, Hevea, Hibiscus, Hordeum, Litchi, Lagenaria, Lawsonia, Medicago, Musa, Oryza, Pennisetum, Phlox, Pisum, Phyllanthus, Picea, Psidium, Ricinus, Sesamum, Shorea, Solanum, Solidago, Sorghum, Stachylarpheta, Stereospermum, Tetragona, Tragopogon, Trigonella, Triticum, Vanda, Verbena, Vicia, Zingiber; also from air, paper, soil and plant debris, textiles, and wood. DISEASE: None as a primary pathogen of plants; frequently encountered as a secondary invader or as a saprophyte. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: AFRICA: Egypt, Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe. ASIA: Bangladesh, India, New Caledonia, Pakistan, Malaysia (Sabah), Sri Lanka. AUSTRALASIA & OCEANIA: Australia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands. EUROPE: UK. NORTH AMERICA: Bermuda. CENTRAL AMERICA & WEST INDIES: Trinidad. TRANSMISSION: By unknown means.


Author(s):  
J. F. Bradbury

Abstract A description is provided for Pseudomonas syringae pv. sesami. Information is included on the disease caused by the organism, its transmission, geographical distribution, and hosts. HOSTS: On Sesamum indicum. Inoculation of Phaseolus vulgaris stems and pods produces characteristic reddish spots with bacterial exudate, but leaves are not infected. Limited reactions reported for some other plants by Sutic & Dowson (1962) were probably what would now be called hypersensitive reactions. DISEASE: Dark brown to black leaf spots tending to be limited by veins. Spots may also appear on all other above-ground parts. On stems they often elongate and coalesce into lesions several cm long. Early infection of capsules may turn them black. Seriously infected plants may die. Under damp conditions epidemics cause severe losses. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION: Tanzania, China, India, Japan, Korea, Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia, USA, Brazil (see CMI Map 398, ed. 2, 1973). Recent reports not included on the map are Uganda (56, 116), South Africa (58, 1681), Mexico (55, 5647) and Venezuela (54, 524). The known distribution in India now includes the whole of UP (49, 2389a). TRANSMISSION: Within the crop transmission is presumed to be by wind-driven rain. Seed transmission occurs (58, 5764) and allows spread into new areas.


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Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Toxoptera odinae (van der Goot) Hemiptera: Aphididae. Attacks cashew, mango, walnut, coffee, Citrus and banana. Information is given on the geographical distribution in USSR, Russian, SFSR, Siberia, AFRICA, Burundi, Kenya, South Africa, ASIA, Bangladesh, China, Fujian, Guangdong, Henan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shanghai, Yunnan, Zhejiang, Hong Kong, India, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Indonesia, Java, Sulawesi, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Philippines, Ryukyu Islands, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand.


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