EPPO Global Database

Pseudomonas syringae pv. persicae(PSDMPE)

Distribution details in United Kingdom (England)

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2014: Absent, pest no longer present
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (96/114): pathogen found on myrobalan plum in Kent in the 1960s now shown by DNA restriction endonuclease fragment patterns to be quite close to pv. persicae as known in France and New Zealand.

From the NPPO ('2014): absent.
References
* NPPO of the United Kingdom (2014-06).

* Young, J. M.; Fletcher, M. J. (1997) Catalogue of the International Collection of Micro-organisms from Plants. Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand.

* Young, J. M.; Jones, D. S.; Gillings, M. (1996) Relationships between populations of Pseudomonas syringae pv. persicae determined by restriction fragment analysis. Plant Pathology 45 (2), 350-357.