Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection (2021) 128, 1363-1366

Zhongxuan Liu, Yaowei He, Zhun Xiang, Yihua Yang, Fei Nie, Xuefeng Liu, Zhengyin Li and Qingxian Zeng (2021)
First report of Pseudomonas oryzihabitans causing fruit black rot in prickly ash in China
Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection 128 (5), 1363-1366
Abstract: Since the summer of 2017, bacterial fruit black rot disease was observed on prickly ash (Zanthoxylum armatum DC., Yongqing No. 1) in three counties (Yongshan, Qiaojia and Ludian) of Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, that kills the fruit, results in significant yield reduction, severely affects quality of fruit and even worst has no harvest. A combination of cultural, biochemical and physiological characterizations, Biolog analyses, MALDI-TOF MS analyses, multi-locus phylogenetic analyses and pathogenicity assays revealed that Pseudomonas oryzihabitans was the pathogen associated with the fruit black rot. The pathogenicity was verified with Koch's postulates. To our knowledge, this study provides the first report of fruit black rot caused by P. oryzihabitans on prickly ash.
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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.
	Pseudomonas oryzihabitans	Zanthoxylum (genus)	China (south)