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Fifteenth Australian Weeds Conference Broom rust in Australia Louise Morin1,2, Jean-Louis Sagliocco3, Diana Hartley2, John R. Hosking1,4, Phil Cramond5 and Bill Washington6 1 CRC for Australian Weed Management 2 CSIRO Entomology, GPO Box 1700, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 2601, Australia 3 Primary Industries Research Victoria, Department of Primary Industries, PO Box 48, Frankston, Victoria 3199, Australia 4 Department of Primary Industries, 4 Marsden Park Road, Calala, New South Wales 2340, Australia 5 Natural Resources Management Board, 1 Adelaide Lobethal Road, Lobethal, South Australia 5241, Australia 6 Biosecurity Victoria, Department of Primary Industries, Private Bag 15 Ferntree Gully Delivery Centre, Victoria 3156, Australia Summary In May 2003, a rust fungus, now tenta- infestations are in the west coast region where about tively referred to as Uromyces pisi-sativi, was found 33,000 ha is infested (Hosking et al. 1998). Scotch for the first time in Australia on Scotch broom (Cytisus broom is common in the Mount Lofty Ranges of SA, scoparius) plants at four sites in Canberra, ACT. The with nearly 4000 ha invaded (Hosking et al. 1998). rust was subsequently detected in January 2005 in a Since the early 1990s, Scotch broom has been a broom sample collected in the Cleland Conservation target for biological control in Australia. The broom Park area, Mount Lofty in SA. Surveys in that region twig-mining moth, Leucoptera spartifoliella Hübner and at Barrington Tops in NSW confirmed the pres- was released in 1993, the broom psyllid, Arytainilla ence of this rust over a broader range than originally spartiophila (Förster) in 1994 and the broom seed pod thought.
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