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Title: OCCURRENCE OF BACTERIAL STRIPE OF PEARL MILLET IN GEORGIA.

Author
item GITAITIS, R - UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
item Wilson, Jeffrey - Jeff
item WALCOTT, R - UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
item SANDERS, H - UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
item Hanna, Wayne

Submitted to: Plant Disease
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 12/6/2001
Publication Date: 3/15/2002
Citation: Gitaitis, R., Wilson, J.P., Walcott, R., Sanders, H., Hanna, W.W. 2002. Occurrence of bacterial stripe of pearl millet in Georgia. Plant Disease 86:326.

Interpretive Summary: Managing the introduction of invasive pest species requires knowledge of the current geographic distributions of pathogens. Bacterial stripe of pearl millet, caused by Acidovorax avenae subsp. avenae was observed in the southeastern United States in 1999 and 2001. The disease has previously been known to occur only in Nigeria. When pathogenicity was compared, bacteria isolated from pearl millet differed from those isolated from corn indicating that the disease was not the result of spread of the corn pathogen to a new host. The bacterium was determined to be seed-borne in pearl millet, indicating the need to assess seed-production practices to minimize inoculum levels in and pathogen dissemination by seed.

Technical Abstract: Not required.