EPPO Global Database

Globodera rostochiensis(HETDRO)

Distribution details in Australia

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2023: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 1986
Pest status declared by NPPO: Present: not widely distributed and under official control (2023-07)
From CABI Disease map 778 (1999): Present, restricted distribution
From NPPO: Present, restricted distribution
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service 511/13: outbreak in Victoria in 1991. No evidence of linkage with the 1986 outbreak in Western Australia (under eradication). Data from FAO Plant Protection Bulletin (1991-04).

From country itself (1992): under eradication in Western Australia and Victoria.

EPPO Reporting Service (2011/031) : eradication successfully achieved in Western Australia in September 2010.

According to Blacket et al. (2019), established in a few locations near Melbourne (Victoria) and eradicated from Western Australia. Surveillance programmes confirm the absence of the pest from other parts of the country.

NPPO (2023): in several production districts of south eastern Victoria (Thorpdale) and is subject to official control. Recent detection od a district that supplies seed potatoes.
References
* Blacket MJ, Agarwal A, Wainer J, Triska MD, Renton M, Edwards J (2019) Molecular assessment of the introduction and spread of potato cyst nematode, Globodera rostochiensis, in Victoria, Australia. Phytopathology 109(4), 659-669.

* Holland S (1991) AQIS Bulletin 3 (2), 2.
------- In Munster (Western Australia) and Wandin (Victoria).

* INTERNET (last accessed in 2011-02)
IPPC website. Pest reports (AUS-39/1) Australia. Eradication of potato cyst nematode (PCN) from Western Australia. https://www.ippc.int/
IPPC website. Official Pest reports - Australia (AUS-16/5 of 2023-07-06). Extension of known Potato Cyst Nematode (PCN) in Victoria, Australia. https://www.ippc.int/fr/countries/australia/pestreports/2008/11/extension-of-known-potato-cyst-nematode-pcn-in-victoria-australia/

* NPPO of Australia (1992).

* Stanton JM (1987) Journal of Agriculture - Western Australia 28 (1), 9-11.
------- First recorded in Australia in 1986 at Munster, 10 km south of Perth.