EPPO Global Database

Ocimum gratissimum(OCIGR)

Pests

Organism Type
Aleurodicus dispersus (ALEDDI) Host
* Boopathi T (2022) New host plants, natural enemy complex and newly distributed potential areas of exotic spiralling whitefly (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) in India. Phytoparasitica 50(2), 335-357.
Corythauma ayyari (as Ocimum) (COTMAY) Host
Peronospora belbahrii (as Ocimum) (PEROBE) Host
Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum (RALSPS) Host
* Sikirou R, Dossoumou ME, Cellier G, Aboubakar Souna D, De Troij A, Deberdt P (2025) First report of bacterial wilt on African basil (Ocimum gratissimum L.) caused by Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum phylotype I in Benin. Plant Disease (early view) https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-10-25-2043-PDN 
----found infecting African basil plants in experimental field plots. Koch's postulates confirmed
Cochlochila bullita (COKLBU) Major host