Bulletin of Insectology (2011) 64, S229-S230

Zoltan Acs, Jelena Jovic, Ibolya Ember, Tatjana Cvrkovic, Zita Nagy, Cecilia Talaber, Laszlo Gergely, Ivo Tosevski and Maria Kölber (2011)
First report of maize redness disease in Hungary
Bulletin of Insectology 64 (Suppl.), S229-S230
Second International Phytoplasmologist Working Group Meeting (IPWG), Neustadt an der Weinstraße (Germany) September 12-15, 2011
Abstract: During 2010, several maize production areas in Hungary were surveyed for the occurrence of maize redness (MR) disease symptoms associated with stolbur phytoplasma, as well as for the presence of the known vector of the disease, a planthopper Reptalus panzeri (Low). Incidence of maize plants with symptoms of reddening was low in all surveyed areas. Altogether, 25 symptomatic maize plants were collected at 9 localities and tested for phytoplasma presence. In addition, from one locality specimens of cixiids R. panzeri and Hyalesthes obsoletus Signoret were collected and PCR analyzed. Presence of stolbur phytoplasma in MR symptomatic maize plants and stolbur-infected R. panzeri was identified at the single locality Monorierdő in central Hungary. This finding represents the first report of MR presence in Hungary.
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Database assignments for author(s): Jelena Jovic, Tatjana Cvrkovic, Ivo Tosevski, Maria Kölber

Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
surveys/sampling/distribution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Hyalesthes obsoletus	Maize/corn (Zea mays)	Hungary
	16SrXII phytoplasma group	Maize/corn (Zea mays)	Hungary
	Reptalus panzeri	Maize/corn (Zea mays)	Hungary