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: Fire blight
HOST: Pluot
Fire blight cankers on major limb. Pluot is an interspecific hybrid of plum and apricot.
Fire blight | Pluot
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pluot (Prunus hybrid 'Dandy Dapple')
PATHOGEN: Erwinia amylovora
SOURCE: S. Mohan
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pluot
Dead shoot, the result of systemic infection.
Fire blight | Pluot
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pluot (Prunus hybrid 'Dandy Dapple')
PATHOGEN: Erwinia amylovora
SOURCE: S. Mohan
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pluot
Typical symptoms of fire blight-infected shoot.
Fire blight | Pluot
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pluot (Prunus hybrid 'Dandy Dapple')
PATHOGEN: Erwinia amylovora
SOURCE: S. Mohan
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