EPPO Global Database

'Candidatus Phytoplasma pyri'(PHYPPY)

Distribution details in Russian Federation (the)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2025: Present, restricted distribution
Comments
Earlier recorded in USSR, and presumed therefore to occur in Russia. This is not confirmed, the only record apparently being in Moldova.

EPPO Reporting Service (2020/175) : 1 tree detected in a research station. Eradicated. All commercial orchards are considered free.

EPPO Reporting Service (2025/255) : appears in the 2024 report of the Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance of the Russian Federation as a quarantine pest of limited distribution in Russia: present in 2 federal subjects (6,247 ha).
References
* Bashkirova IG, Bondarenko GN, Kornev KP (2019) Study of methods for detecting quarantine phytoplasma's from the apple proliferation group on the territory of Russia. Phytopathogenic Mollicutes 9(1), 211-212.DOI:10.5958/2249-4677.2019.00106.3

* Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation (2024) НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ДОКЛАД о карантинном фитосанитарном состоянии территории Российской Федерациив 2024 году [National report on the quarantine status on the territory of the Russian Federation in 2024], 33 pp (in Russian) https://fsvps.gov.ru/files/nacionalnyj-doklad-o-karantinnom-fitosanitarnom-sostojanii-territorii-rossijskoj-federacii-v-2024-godu/
Situation in neighbouring countries
Country State Status
Azerbaijan Present, no details view...
Belarus Present, restricted distribution view...
Estonia Absent, confirmed by survey view...
Norway Present, restricted distribution view...
Poland Present, restricted distribution view...