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: Nephthytis
Leaf with concentric rings of dark tissues. There has been confusion of the causal agent with Dickeya sp., which also causes mushy leaf spots.
Bacterial leaf spot | Nephthytis
DISEASE: Bacterial leaf spot
HOST: Nephthytis (Syngonium podophyllum)
PATHOGEN: Pectobacterium carotovorum
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora
SOURCE: A. Chase
DISEASE: Bacterial leaf spot
HOST: Nephthytis
Water-soaked tissues and large, dark brown necrotic areas at leaf margins. Healthy (center leaf).
Bacterial leaf spot | Nephthytis
DISEASE: Bacterial leaf spot
HOST: Nephthytis (Syngonium podophyllum)
PATHOGEN: Pseudomonas cichorii
SOURCE: S. Thomson
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: Syngonium blight
HOST: Nephthytis
Leaf with large, brown to blackish necrotic areas.
Syngonium blight | Nephthytis
DISEASE: Syngonium blight
HOST: Nephthytis (Syngonium podophyllum)
PATHOGEN: Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. dieffenbachiae
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Xanthomonas campestris pv. dieffenbachiae
SOURCE: R. Raabe