EPPO Global Database

EPPO Reporting Service no. 02 - 1996 Num. article: 1996/36

NAPPO quarantine lists for potato pests


NAPPO has recently published its official lists of A1 and A2 quarantine pests for potatoes, and also a B1 list containing potato pests of potential economic importance which can be managed by an officially accredited seed potato certification program.

NAPPO A1 Quarantine Pests of potatoes

  • Viruses
Andean potato mottle comovirus
Andean potato latent tymovirus
Arracacha A nepovirus
Potato mop top furovirus
Potato deforming mosaic disease
Potato T capillovirus
Potato U nepovirus
Potato V potyvirus
Potato Y potyvirus strain C
Potato yellow vein disease
Tomato black ring nepovirus, including its beet ringspot strain

  • Phytoplasmas
Potato phyllody phytoplasma
Potato round leaf phytoplasma

  • Bacteria
Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) solanacearum race 3
Pseudomonas putida

  • Fungi
Aecidium cantensis
Cochliobolus hawaiiensis
Ophiobolus porphyrogonus
Phoma andina
Phoma eupyrena
Phoma exigua var. foveata


NAPPO A2 Quarantine Pests of potatoes

  • Viruses
Beet curly top geminivirus
Potato Y potyvirus strain N

  • Fungi
Synchytrium endobioticum

  • Insects
Leptinotarsa decemlineata
Ostrinia nubilalis
Rhizotrogus majalis

  • Nematodes
Ditylenchus destructor
Ditylenchus dipsaci
Globodera pallida
Globodera rostochiensis
Meloidogyne chitwoodi


NAPPO B1 Pests of potatoes
The following list contains those pests of potential economic importance to potatoes whose economic loss potential can be satisfactorily managed by the application of an officially accredited seed potato certification program.

  • Viruses
Potato X potexvirus
Potato Y potyvirus
Potato A potyvirus
Potato M carlavirus
Potato S carlavirus
Potato leafroll luteovirus
Potato spindle tuber viroid

  • Bacteria
Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus
Erwinia carotovora spp. atroseptica
Erwinia carotovora spp. carotovora
Erwinia chrysanthemi
Streptomyces scabies

  • Fungi
Phytophthora infestans
Fusarium spp.
Rhizoctonia solani

Sources

Anonymous (1996) NAPPO A-1, A-2 and B-1 Pests of Potatoes.
NAPPO Newsletter, 16 (1), p3.