DISEASE: Aster yellows
HOST: Wheat
Healthy head (left) and diseased head (right). Diseased seedlings may die within 2 to 3 weeks. Infected heads of surviving plants are small and sterile, with distorted awns.
Aster yellows | Wheat
DISEASE: Aster yellows
HOST: Wheat (Triticum aestivum)
PATHOGEN: 'Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris'
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Phytoplasma Aster yellows group
SOURCE: L. N. Chiykowski
DISEASE: Bacterial canker (Leaf and fruit spot)
HOST: Kiwi
Diseased blossoms, a stage of bacterial canker.
Bacterial canker (Leaf and fruit spot) | Kiwi
DISEASE: Bacterial canker (Leaf and fruit spot)
HOST: Kiwi (Actinidia chinensis)
PATHOGEN: Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae
SOURCE: J. Young
DISEASE: Bacterial canker (Leaf and fruit spot)
HOST: Kiwi
Leaf spot stage of the disease with small, brown lesions with yellow halos.
Bacterial canker (Leaf and fruit spot) | Kiwi
DISEASE: Bacterial canker (Leaf and fruit spot)
HOST: Kiwi (Actinidia chinensis)
PATHOGEN: Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae
SOURCE: M. Goto
DISEASE: Bacterial canker (Leaf and fruit spot)
HOST: Kiwi
Leaf spots on young leaves. Note dark brown to black lesions on lower surface (left) and similar lesions on upper surface but with yellow halos (right).
Bacterial canker (Leaf and fruit spot) | Kiwi
DISEASE: Bacterial canker (Leaf and fruit spot)
HOST: Kiwi (Actinidia chinensis)
PATHOGEN: Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae
SOURCE: J. Young
DISEASE: Bacterial canker (Leaf and fruit spot)
HOST: Kiwi
Rusty-colored exudate oozing from cankers on infected trunk.
Bacterial canker (Leaf and fruit spot) | Kiwi
DISEASE: Bacterial canker (Leaf and fruit spot)
HOST: Kiwi (Actinidia chinensis)
PATHOGEN: Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae
SOURCE: M. Goto
DISEASE: Bacterial finger-tip rot
HOST: Banana
Cross sections of fruit with internal discoloration and rot. This disease is also known as Mokillo disease.
Bacterial finger-tip rot | Banana
DISEASE: Bacterial finger-tip rot
HOST: Banana (Musa sp.)
PATHOGEN: Burkholderia cenocepacia
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Pseudomonas cenocepacia
SOURCE: I. Buddenhagen
DISEASE: Bacterial finger-tip rot
HOST: Banana
Longitudinal sections of fruit with internal discoloration and rot. Healthy (right).
Bacterial finger-tip rot | Banana
DISEASE: Bacterial finger-tip rot
HOST: Banana (Musa sp.)
PATHOGEN: Burkholderia cenocepacia
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Pseudomonas cenocepacia
SOURCE: I. Buddenhagen
DISEASE: Bacterial finger-tip rot
HOST: Banana
Diseased banana hand with external discoloration.
Bacterial finger-tip rot | Banana
DISEASE: Bacterial finger-tip rot
HOST: Banana (Musa sp.)
PATHOGEN: Burkholderia cenocepacia
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Pseudomonas cenocepacia
SOURCE: I. Buddenhagen
DISEASE: Bacterial leaf blight
HOST: Wheat
Diseased leaves with whitish blotches. Initial water-soaked spots become necrotic and progress from gray-green to tannish white.
Bacterial leaf blight | Wheat
DISEASE: Bacterial leaf blight
HOST: Wheat (Triticum aestivum)
PATHOGEN: Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae
SOURCE: J. Otta