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California Plant Pest & Disease Report Vol. 25 California Plant Pest & Disease Report Volume 25 Covering Jan. 2008 - Dec. 2009 A Publication of the California Department of Food & Agriculture, Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch CALIFORNIA PLANT PEST & DISEASE REPORT Volume 25, Jan. 2008 - Dec. 2009 EDITORS Stephen Gaimari & Megan O’Donnell LAYOUT & DESIGN Megan O’Donnell CONTRIBUTORS Gevork Arakelian Martin Hauser Obediah Sage Charles Bellamy Fred Hrusa Sergei Subbotin Cheryl Blomquist Steven T. Koike Gillian Watson John Chitambar René Luna Jeanenne White Ke Dong Israfiel Mohammed Tongyan Tian Marc Epstein Megan O’Donnell Tim Tidwell Stephen Gaimari Suzanne Rooney-Latham Yunping Zhang Rosser Garrison Alessandra Rung Address correspondence concerning the CPPDR, including subscription and back issue requests, to: Editor, CPPDR Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch California Department of Food & Agriculture 3294 Meadowview Road Sacramento, CA 95832-1448 1 2 5 Cover illustration: Megan O’Donnell, PPDC, CDFA. - 3 1) Asian Citrus Psyllid (ACP) nymph; 2) Citrus flower; 3) lime fruit showing symp 4 Phototoms of credits: Citrus Greening Disease (HLB); 4) adult ACP; 5) HLB particles. 1)Jeffrey W. Lotz, Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, Bugwood.org; 2) Forest & Kim Starr, Starr Environmental, Bugwood.org; 3) Jeffrey W. Lotz; 4) M. E. Rogers, UF / IFAS / Citrus Research & Education Center; 5) Vol. 25 January 2008 - December 2009 Monique Garnier. CALIFORNIA PLANT PEST & DISEASE REPORT 1 CONTENTS Introduction 3 A, B, & Q Rated Detection & Interception Tables Significant Records in Botany Botany 66 68 SignificantBranched Records Broomrape in Entomology 4 Detections by County 69 7 Entomology Interceptions by County Coleoptera 8 Interceptions by Border Stations 71 DipteraBlattodea 9 78 Detections by County Interceptions by County Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha 13 Nematology 16 Interceptions by Border Stations 85 Hemiptera: Heteroptera 2013 OrthopteraHemiptera: Sternorrhyncha 22 ThysanopteraLepidoptera 22 Detections by County 103 Plant PathologyInterceptions by County 103 Interceptions by Border Stations 103 Significant Records in Nematology Insect Pest Sheets 23 106 Detections by County 106104 Interceptions by County Detection of Plant Parasitic Nematodes in Seed Interceptions by Border Stations California 37 107 Plant Parasitic Nematode Detections of Interest & 107 SignificantSignificance Records in Plant Pathology 40 Detections by County 108 Interceptions by County Dogwood anthracnose 42 Interceptions by Border Stations Karnal Bunt of Wheat Testing 41 An Overview of Distinctive & Destructive Downy Mildews 4349 UpdateSelected on Phot Powderyographs Mildew of the Diseases Downy MildewsFrom the 46 CentralThe Powdery Coast RegionMildews of California 53 Chrysanthemum white rust 56 GladiolusSelected Phot Rustographs of Powdery Mildews 5457 Selected Photographs of Detected Rust Fungi 59 Palm Wilt 63 Citrus Greening (Huanglongbing) Testing in California 64 2 CALIFORNIA PLANT PEST & DISEASE REPORT Vol. 25 January 2008 - December 2009 INTRODUCTION The California Plant Pest & Disease Report (CPPDR) was last printed and issued as Volume 24, in 2008, covering the period of January through December 2007. Since that time, there have been many significant pest finds in California not published through this medium. The current installment (Volume 25) covers the time period from January 2008 through December 2009. California Plant Pest & Disease Report, volumes 1-25 are freely available at: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PPD/publications/CPPDR.html Also available: The Plant Pest Diagnostic Center Annual Report 2010 California Noxious Weed Pest Disseminules A year by year summary of the PPDC activities. 2001-2010 Identification Manual available for download. by D.J.L. Meyer & J. Effenberger http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PPD/publications/annual_reports.html http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PPD/publications/special_pubs.html Cooperative Plant Pest Report for California (CPPR) The Occasional Papers Selected volumes. This publication preceded the CPPDR. 30 publications from 1959 through 1985 available for download. http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PPD/publications/CPPDR.html http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PPD/publications/occ_papers_ent.html The Bulletin Volumes 1-31 (1933-1959), available for download. The Scale Insects of California, vol. I-III by R.J. Gill http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PPD/publications/cdfa_bulletin.html Eriophyid Studies http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PPD/publications/tech_series.html By H.H.Keifer 1938-1979. Spread over various publications but collected on one webpage. http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/PPD/publications/eriophyid_studies.html Vol. 25 January 2008 - December 2009 CALIFORNIA PLANT PEST & DISEASE REPORT 3 Botany SigniFicant Records in Botany BRANCHED BROOMRAPE LAMIALES: Orobanchaceae: OROBANCHE RAMOSA PREPARED BY F. HRUSA - Nicotiana tabacum Branched broomrape, an achlorophyl respectively) and tobacco ( the original introduction of branched lous parasitic annual plant species ) - three of the world’s most broomrape to North America was known to use more than 300 other plant important crops, although only the first through import of Chinese hemp seed species as its host, was discovered in San is a major crop in California. (McPartland et al. 2000). At that time Cannabis Cannabis sativa Benito County in 2009. This is the first these Chinese hemp varieties were sativaHemp is not a crop in California. Despite find of branched broomrape in California thought to be , but are the use of its scientific Cannabisname, indica C. indica and are not since 1983, and significantly the same now known to be conspecific with the , for cultivated marijuana;Cannabis the C. sativa site was the location for that infestation. intoxicant species indicaintoxicating species is Many of the parasitized species are crop (Hillig & Mahlberg 2004). the industrial non-intoxicant (Hillig & Mahlberg op cit.). Thus it is a tomatoplants or (Lycopersicon their wild or esculentum weedy relatives,), hemp, is also bred and grownOrobanche for seed parasite or potentially serious parasite of with the most severely attackedCanna being- ramosaand fiber (and thus as hemp) in eastern two of California’s largest crops, even if bis sativa Cannabis indica Asia, particularlyCannabis China, indica and state (Cannabis). both European and Chinese ( is a parasite of Chinese hemp one is only unofficially the largest in the L. and Lam. and therefore . In fact, History Orobanche ramosa - may have first been was being cultivated then in the north recognized by the ancient Greeks who ern Sacramento Valley, and contaminants described plants attachedOrobanche to the roots ramosa in hemp seed could have thus been the of legumes. However, it isO. not cruenta known that if source of the first California branched they were referencing broomrape infestations. Later, in 1928 or other species such as (reported to CDFA in 1929) it was found preferentially parasitize legumes. It was on tomatoes growing in the Centerville definitely described by herbalists of the region of Alameda County, a location 16th-17th centuries, who, despite not where it persisted at least until the knowing its biology, were aware of its 1970s. The original find stated that only requirement for a specific companion about 1.5 (one and one-half) acres were crop (Wilhelm 1962). These namesOro and- infested, with a second small infestation banchedescriptions ramosa have no nomenclatural replantedabout 500 toyards tomato distant. and theThese parasite fields bearing, and the current name of were abandoned, but in 1934 they were L. dates from Linnaeus’ Species Plantarum of 1753. recurred. Again abandoned, there were - Its indigenous region is thought to be the subsequent flood events that washed Caucasus of southern Russia (Wilhelm over the local region apparently spread ing seed downstream. In 1942 a local 1962.). The earliest reports of branched- broomrape did not mention hosts, and infestation was found, but not reported it is unclear what it parasitizes in the in at the time. In 1949-52 it was found on Branched Broomrape, Orobanche ramosa, an A-rated, at least 100 acres in the flooded zone, non-native parasite infesting a tomato plant. digenous non-agricultural setting. It was (Photos: D. Kelch, CDFA PPDB) introduced to Europe at an early date, plus in smaller patches upstream of apparently as a contaminant in hemp the original 1929 find. These upstream seed, and it is likely that it came to North sites were farmed by the same family - America via the same host (Wilhelm op. who farmed the original find (Stout and mato. Surveys continued from then until cit; McPartland et al. 2000). When and Wagnon, 1953). It is not known whether- the middle 1970s with finds continu how it first arrived in California is not hemp was cultivated in that region prior ing over all those years. Wilhelm et al. to 1929, and thus how the seed first ar (1965) suggested that these infestations, known but the first report from the state O. ramosa - was in Butte County in 1903. The host rived in Alameda County is unknown. described as in “heavy concentrations” on Grand and Roberts Islands in the was not specified, but the specimen label In 1959 was found in two re- stated “a very destructive root parasite gions in and about the Sacramento Delta. mid-1960s had been present for a long on4 hemp,CALIFORNIA Gridley”, PLANT suggesting PEST & DISEASE that hemp REPORT In both locations it was parasitizing to period,Vol. perhaps 25 January many 2008 decades. - December Again, 2009 Botany it is not known if hemp had ever
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