First report of Candidatus Liberibacter psyllaurous or Ca Liberibacter solanacearum associated with severe foliar chlorosis, curling, and necrosis and tuber discoloration of potato plants in Honduras
Rehman,M.; Melgar,J.C.; RiveraC.,J.M.; Idris,A.M.; Brown,J.K.
Plant Disease: 3, 376-377
2010
ISSN/ISBN: 1943-7692 Accession: 034936620
From 2006 to 2009, all commercial potato fields in Azacualpa F.M. Honduras were heavily infested with the potato psyllid Bactericera cockerelli. Plants exhibited interveinal chlorosis, vein-greening, downward curling, stunting, above ground tuber formation, and brownish flecks in some tubers. Disease incidence ranged from 50 to 95%. Leaf samples and psyllids were collected from 7 fields in two potato- growing regions of Honduras.