Pathogen of the Month:  From the Western Australian Region
 
 
Year 2007         

Month

Pathogen

Disease

Host/s

Contributors

February PDF

Armillaria luteobubalina

Armillaria root rot

Aust. natives

Colin Crane, Richard Robinson

March PDF

Wheat streak mosaic virus

Wheat streak mosaic

Cereals

Roger Jones, Mark Holland, Brenda Coutts, Geoff Dwyer

April PDF

Quambalaria coyrecup

Corymbia canker disease

Corymbia calophylla, C. ficifolia

Trudy Paap

May PDF

Meloidogyne fallax

Root knot nematode

Crops and more

Vivien Vanstone, Jackie Nobbs

June PDF

Phytophthora ramorum

Sudden Oak Death

Wide range include Aust. natives

Kylie Ireland, Daniel Hüberli

July PDF

Candidatus Phytoplasma

Witches’ broom, big bud, little leaf, yellows

1000+ plant spp.

Kirsty Bayliss

August PDF

Xanthomonas axonopodis

Citrus canker

Citrus and other Rutaceae spp.

Aaron Maxwell

September PDF

Puccinia gramini sf.sp. tritici

Stem rust of wheat

Wheat and some other cereals

Manisha Shankar, Robert Loughman, Robert Park

October PDF

Mycosphaerella cryptica

Mycosphaerella  leaf disease, leaf blotch, crinkle leaf disease

Eucalyptus spp.

Kate Taylor, Paul Barber

November PDF

Tilletia indica

Karnal bunt

Wheat, duraum, triticale

Dominie Wright, Mui-Keng Tan

December PDF

Zythiostroma sp.

Aerial canker in Banksia

Proteaceae spp.

Chris Dunne

Year 2008

 

 

 

 

Month

Pathogen

Disease

Host/s

Contributors

January PDF

Uromycladium tepperianum

Galls and witches’ brooms of wattles

Aust. Acacia spp., Paraserianthes spp.

Alan Wood

February PDF

Microdochium panattonianum

Anthracnose

Lettuce

Hossein Golzar, Roger Shivas

March PDF

Giberellacircinata (anamorph = Fusarium circinatum

Pine Pitch Canker  

Pinus species 

Aaron Maxwell

April PDF

Heterodera carotae

Carrot cyst nematode disease

 Cultivated and wild carrots

Abu-Baker M. Siddique

May PDF Trogoderma granarium Khapra beetle Cereal grains, flour, malt and noodles Mark Castalanelli

June PDF

Hardenbergia mosaic virus

Hardenbergia mosaic

Hardenbergia comptoniana

Craig Webster, Stephen Wylie and Roger Jones

July PDF

Sphaceloma perseae Jenkins

Avocado scab

 Avocados (Persea americana)

Kerry Everett

August PDF Hymenochaetesemi stupposa Incipient rot and white pocket rot Eucalyptus diversicolor (Karri) Elaine Davison and Richard Robinson