DISEASE: Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse
HOST: Pineapple
Diseased ripe fruit with external discoloration.
Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse | Pineapple
DISEASE: Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse
HOST: Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
PATHOGEN: Dickeya sp.
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Erwinia chrysanthemi
SOURCE: C. V. Subere
DISEASE: Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse
HOST: Pineapple
Longitudinal section of pineapple fruit core exhibiting outward spread of infection.
Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse | Pineapple
DISEASE: Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse
HOST: Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
PATHOGEN: Dickeya sp.
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Erwinia chrysanthemi
SOURCE: C. V. Subere
DISEASE: Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse
HOST: Pineapple
Longitudinal section of pineapple with rotted tissues and cavities at the base.
Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse | Pineapple
DISEASE: Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse
HOST: Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
PATHOGEN: Dickeya sp.
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Erwinia chrysanthemi
SOURCE: A. de Silva
DISEASE: Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse
HOST: Pineapple
Characteristic gas-filled "blister" on leaf (left) and decayed, dried leaf (right).
Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse | Pineapple
DISEASE: Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse
HOST: Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
PATHOGEN: Dickeya sp.
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Erwinia chrysanthemi
SOURCE: A. de Silva
DISEASE: Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse
HOST: Pineapple
Necrosis and rot at bases of central heart leaves (whorl) with dark borders at margins between diseased and healthy tissues.
Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse | Pineapple
DISEASE: Bacterial heart rot and fruit collapse
HOST: Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
PATHOGEN: Dickeya sp.
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Erwinia chrysanthemi
SOURCE: G. Taniguchi
DISEASE: Bacterial leaf spot
HOST: Clover
Clover with reddish brown leaf spots, stem spots, and blighted stem.
Bacterial leaf spot | Clover
DISEASE: Bacterial leaf spot
HOST: Clover (Trifolium pratense)
PATHOGEN: Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae
SOURCE: F. Frosheizer, M. Shurtleff
DISEASE: Pink disease
HOST: Pineapple
Infected pineapple slices; effect of heating (right) and not heating (left).
Pink disease | Pineapple
DISEASE: Pink disease
HOST: Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
PATHOGEN: Tatumella citrea
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Pantoea citrea
SOURCE: K. Rohrbach, A. Alvarez
DISEASE: Pink disease
HOST: Pineapple
Two clones (A and D) showing different stages of infection. Second and fourth fruits (left to right) have been heated. Disease originally attributed to Gluconobacter oxydans and Enterobacter agglomerans and later to Pantoea citrea.
Pink disease | Pineapple
DISEASE: Pink disease
HOST: Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
PATHOGEN: Tatumella citrea
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Pantoea citrea
SOURCE: K. Rohrbach
DISEASE: Rugose leaf curl
HOST: Clover
Two rugose, distorted white clover leaves and a healthy leaf. Rugose leaf curl is caused by an unidentified phloem-infecting bacterium.
Rugose leaf curl | Clover
DISEASE: Rugose leaf curl
HOST: Clover (Trifolium repens)
PATHOGEN: Phloem-infecting bacterium
SOURCE: D. Teakle