POnTE PROJECT NEWSLETTER Aug 25, 2017 ISSUE

A Simple Key to the Potential Vectors of CaLsol

‘A Simple Key to the Potential Vectors of CaLsol’, by Mairi Carnegie (SASA), Alex Greenslade (Rothamsted Research) & David Ouvrard (Natural History Museum London) was designed for use during a Psyllid identification workshop held at Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA), Edinburgh in March 2017. This is a simple, pictorial key to adult Psylloidae […]

First report of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ in the UK in the psyllid Trioza anthrisci

New Disease Reports (2017) 36, 4. dx.doi.org/10.5197/j.2044-0588.2017.036.004 M.J. Sjölund 1*, M. Clark 1, M. Carnegie 1, A.F.C. Greenslade 2, D. Ouvrard 3, F. Highet 1, R. Sigvald 4, J.R. Bell 2, Y.M. Arnsdorf 1, R. Cairns 1 and D.M. Kenyon 1 1 Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA), Roddinglaw Road, Edinburgh EH12 7FJ, UK. 2 […]

First report of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus on Fraxinus excelsior in Montenegro

Forest Pathology 2017. DOI: 10.1111/efp.12359 I. Milenković 1,2 | T. Jung 2,3 | Z. Stanivuković 4 | D. Karadžić 5 1 Institute of Forestry, Belgrade, Serbia. 2 Phytophthora Research Centre, Mendel University, Brno, Czech Republic. 3 Phytophthora Research and Consultancy, Nußdorf, Germany. 4 Forestry Faculty, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 5 University of Belgrade-Faculty of Forestry, Belgrade, Serbia. Correspondence Ivan Milenković, Institute of […]

PhD vacancy open at Wageningen University on Economic and Social Impact Assessment of Plant Pests in the EU

Wageningen University and Research invites applications for the PhD position entitled: ‘Economic and Social Impact Assessment of Plant Pests in the European Union’. This research will be carried out within the framework of a multi-disciplinary Horizon2020-project called Pest Organisms Threatening Europe (POnTE), in which 15 research partners from 11 EU countries participate. Decision making on strategies […]

Nothophytophthora gen. nov., a new sister genus of Phytophthora from natural and semi-natural ecosystem

Persoonia 2017. doi.org/10.3767/persoonia.2017.39.07 T. Jung 1,2,3*, B. Scanu 4, J. Bakonyi 5, D. Seress 5, G.M. Kovács 5,6, A. Durán 7, E. Sanfuentes von Stowasser 8, L. Schena 9, S. Mosca 9, P.Q. Thu 10, C.M. Nguyen 10, S. Fajardo 8, M. González 8, A. Pérez-Sierra 11, H. Rees 11, A. Cravador 2, C. Maia 2, M. Horta […]

Updated the EU database of host plants of Xylella fastidiosa

Aug 04, 2017 11:30 am | Valentina Zoccali

The European Commission has updated the list of host plants found to be susceptible to Xylella fastidiosa in the territory of the European Union. The database now contains four categories of host plants in relation to the subspecies associated to the host infection(s). The European Commission Directorate General for Health and Food Safety released, on July […]

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