Ralstonia solanacearum(RALSSL)
Distribution details in Russian Federation (the)
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated
2025: Present, few occurrences
Several Soviet texts on potato diseases refer to brown rot, but without making it clear whether and where this disease occurs in Russia.
EPPO Reporting Service (2001/123) : confirmed case in 1999 in potato plot in Leningrad province.
EPPO Reporting Service (2003/067) : isolations from diseased potato plants in different parts of Russia gave 59 strains of race 3. Brown rot can cause severe losses in potato and tomato in some regions, but the geographical distribution is not specified.
From NPPO (2019): confirmed absence.
EPPO Reporting Service (2019/101) : detected in two samples from Kostroma region (Central Russia).
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 1 federal subject (299.41 ha).
EPPO Reporting Service (2001/123) : confirmed case in 1999 in potato plot in Leningrad province.
EPPO Reporting Service (2003/067) : isolations from diseased potato plants in different parts of Russia gave 59 strains of race 3. Brown rot can cause severe losses in potato and tomato in some regions, but the geographical distribution is not specified.
From NPPO (2019): confirmed absence.
EPPO Reporting Service (2019/101) : detected in two samples from Kostroma region (Central Russia).
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 1 federal subject (299.41 ha).
* NPPO of Russia (2019-03).
* Malko A, Frantsuzov P, Nikitin M, Statsyuk N, Dzhavakhiya V, Golikov A (2019) Potato pathogens in Russia’s regions: an instrumental survey with the use of real-time PCR/RT-PCR in matrix format. Pathogens 8(1), 18.
https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens8010018
* Matveeva EV, Pekhtereva ESh, Nikolaeva EV, Schaad NW (2003) Pathogenicity, virulence, and phenotypic diversity of Ralstonia solanacearum strains in potato in Russian Federation. Abstract of a paper presented at the APS Annual Meeting (Charlotte, US, 2003-08-09/13). Phytopathology 93(6), supplement, S58.
------- Brown rot of potato, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum has emerged as a major problem in the Russian Federation. Isolations from diseased potato plants in different parts of Russia gave 59 strains of race 3 (R. solanacearum [phylotype IIB-1]). Brown rot can cause severe losses in potato and tomato in some regions, but the geographical distribution is not specified.
* 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/
* Malko A, Frantsuzov P, Nikitin M, Statsyuk N, Dzhavakhiya V, Golikov A (2019) Potato pathogens in Russia’s regions: an instrumental survey with the use of real-time PCR/RT-PCR in matrix format. Pathogens 8(1), 18.
https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens8010018
* Matveeva EV, Pekhtereva ESh, Nikolaeva EV, Schaad NW (2003) Pathogenicity, virulence, and phenotypic diversity of Ralstonia solanacearum strains in potato in Russian Federation. Abstract of a paper presented at the APS Annual Meeting (Charlotte, US, 2003-08-09/13). Phytopathology 93(6), supplement, S58.
------- Brown rot of potato, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum has emerged as a major problem in the Russian Federation. Isolations from diseased potato plants in different parts of Russia gave 59 strains of race 3 (R. solanacearum [phylotype IIB-1]). Brown rot can cause severe losses in potato and tomato in some regions, but the geographical distribution is not specified.
* 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/
| Country | State | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|
| China | Guangdong | Present, no details | |
| China | Present, no details | ||
| China | Hebei | Present, no details | |
| China | Hunan | Present, no details | |
| China | Hubei | Present, no details | |
| China | Beijing | Present, no details | |
| China | Fujian | Present, no details | |
| China | Guizhou | Present, no details | |
| China | Neimenggu | Present, no details | |
| China | Shandong | Present, no details | |
| China | Sichuan | Present, no details | |
| China | Yunnan | Present, no details | |
| China | Zhejiang | Present, no details | |
| Estonia | Absent, confirmed by survey | ||
| Finland | Absent, confirmed by survey | ||
| Georgia | Present, no details | ||
| Latvia | Absent, confirmed by survey | ||
| Norway | Absent, confirmed by survey | ||
| Poland | Present, few occurrences | ||
| Ukraine | Transient |