Volume 16: August 2007 - January 2008

• Sugarcane yellow leaf phytoplasma associated for the first time with sugarcane yellow leaf syndrome in India
  R.K.Gaur Richa Raizada & G.P.Rao
• First report on the association of a 16SrII phytoplasma with sesame phyllody in Pakistan
  Khalid P. Akhtar, M. Dickinson, G. Sarwar, F. F. Jamil & M. A. Haq
• Powdery mildew on tomato caused by Oidium neolycopersici in Changchun in China
  S. Y. Liu, W. Liu, S. Takamatsu & Y. Li
• First report of rust caused by Coleosporium plumeriae on Plumeria alba in India
  Pankaj Baiswar, Satish Chandra & Rajiv Kumar
• First report of Eutypella parasitica causing cankers on field maple (Acer campestre) in Croatia
  N. Ogris, D. Diminic, B. Piškur & H. Kraigher
• Medlar decline caused by Phytophthora cactorum in Hungary
  T. Érsek, L. Belbahri, Z. Á. Nagy, J. Bakonyi, J. Crovadore & F. Lefort
• Iris yellow spot virus (IYSV) infecting Lisianthus (Eustoma grandiflorum) in the UK: first finding and detection by real-time PCR
  R.A. Mumford, R. Glover, M. Daly, T. Nixon, V. Harju & A. Skelton
• First report of Erysiphe palczewskii on Caragana arborescens in the Czech Republic
  A. Lebeda, B. Mieslerová & M. Sedlářová
• First confirmed report of downy mildew caused by Hyaloperonospora parasitica on broccoli in Korea
  S.Y. Hong, H.J. Jee, Y.J. Choi & H.D. Shin
• Molecular identification of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma cynodontis’ associated with Bermuda grass white leaf disease in India
  S. K. Snehi, M. S. Khan, S. K. Raj, S. Mall, M. Singh & G. P. Rao
• First report of Beet mosaic virus infecting lettuce, in China
  H.Y. Wang, X.D. Li, Y.Y. Liu, B. Wang & X.P. Zhu
• Occurrence of powdery mildew (Erysiphe sp.) on Echeveria spp., Crassula spp., Cotyledon and Dudleya in the UK
  B. Henricot
• Seiridium cardinale is a new threat to cypress trees in Cyprus
  P. Tsopelas, A. Angelopoulos & K. Nikolaou
• A Fusarium sp. different from Fusarium oxysporum and F. mangiferae is associated with mango malformation in Michoacán, Mexico
  G. Rodríguez-Alvarado, S. P. Fernández-Pavía, R. C. Ploetz & M. Valenzuela-Vázquez
• Phloeosporella ceanothi causing leaf spot and dieback on Ceanothus in the UK
  J. Denton, B. Henricot, G. Denton, A. V. Barnes & P. A. Beales
• A new host for Nigrospora sphaerica causing leaf spots on Glycyrrhiza glabra
  O.P. Verma & R.B.L. Gupta
• Identification of an X-disease (16SrIII) group phytoplasma (‘Candidatus Phytoplasma pruni’) infecting delphiniums in the UK
  V.A Harju*, A.L Skelton, W.A. Monger, B. Jarvis & R.A. Mumford
• Powdery mildew caused by Erysiphe cruciferarum is found for the first time on Chinese cabbage in Korea
  H.J. Jee, C.K. Shim, Y.J. Choi & H.D. Shin
• Vallota mosaic virus infecting nerine in the UK
  W.A. Monger and R.A. Mumford
• Pythium myriotylum, a new pathogen of green beans in Spain
  Y. Serrano, J. Mª Melero, Mª. L. Guirado, E. Segundo & J. Gómez
• 'Candidatus Phytoplasma asteris' identified in Senecio jacobaea in the United Kingdom
  R. Reeder & Y. Arocha
• A novel finding of Podosphaera causing powdery mildew on Cuphea rosea
  P.A. Beales & R.T.A. Cook
• Yellow leaf curl disease of pumpkin in Thailand is associated with Squash leaf curl China virus
  T. Ito, T. Ogawa, K. Samretwanich, P. Sharma & M. Ikegami
• Outbreak of Papaya ringspot virus in papaya orchards in St. Kitts
  M. Chin, L. Rhodes & P. Tennant
• First report of wilt of Amygdalus communis caused by Verticillium dahliae in China
  H.-W. Zhang, W. Zhang, J. Zhou & G.-Z. Zhang
• Occurrence of mal nero disease on mandarin and orange trees in Tunisia
  M. R. Hajlaoui, L. Kalai, M. Mnari-Hattab, A. Guermech and N. Ben Abdelaal
• Natural occurrence of phytoplasma associated with chickpea phyllody disease in Pakistan - a new record
  Khalid P. Akhtar, T. M. Shah, B. M. Atta, M. Dickinson, F. F. Jamil, M. A. Haq, S. Hameed & M. J. Iqbal
• Leaf-spot caused by Pseudocercospora lythracearum on Lagerstroemia indica in Brazil
  M. Silva & O.L. Pereira
• Pomegranate fruit rot caused by Coniella granati confirmed in Greece
  G.T. Tziros & K. Tzavella-Klonari
• Geranium rust disease caused by Puccinia pelargonii-zonalis: first report in Turkey
  Mehmet Erhan Göre
• White rust outbreaks on chrysanthemum caused by Puccinia horiana in Turkey
  Mehmet Erhan Göre
• Moroccan watermelon mosaic virus newly reported on zucchini squash in France
  H. Lecoq, I. Justafré, C. Wipf-Scheibel & C. Desbiez
• First Report of Tomato chlorosis virus in Turkey
  Bayram Çevik & Gözde Erkış
• First report of Hop latent viroid (HLVd) in China
  Shengxue Liu, Shifang Li, Jianbo Zhu, Benchun Xiang & Lianpu Cao
• Melon necrotic spot virus newly reported in China
  Q.-S. Gu, W.-H. Bao, Y.-P. Tian, M. Prins, H.-X Yang, J. Lu, L.-F. Liu & B. Peng
• First record of leaf rust caused by Melampsora populnea on Populus alba x glandulosa in Korea
  H.Y. Yun, Y.H. Kim & K.J. Lee
• First report of the presence of the lethal yellowing group (16Sr IV) of phytoplasmas in the weeds Emelia fosbergii and Synedrella nodiflora in Jamaica
  S.E. Brown, B.O. Been & W.A. McLaughlin
• Melon yellow spot virus in watermelon a first record from Taiwan
  T.-C. Chen, Y.-Y. Lu, Y.-H. Cheng, C.-A. Chang & S.-D. Yeh
• First report of bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum biovar 2 on tomato in Turkey
  Nursen Ustun, Meric Ozakman & Aynur Karahan
• Downy mildew of coleus (Solenostemon scutellarioides) caused by Peronospora sp. in Florida
  A.J. Palmateer, P. F. Harmon 2 & T.S. Schubert
• Occurrence of Tomato mosaic Havana virus in Nicaragua
  W.A. Monger, R.A. Mumford, E. Antonio García & E. Boa
• First report of Verticillium wilt of artichoke caused by Verticillium dahliae in Tunisia
  H. Jabnoun-Khiareddine, M. Daami-Remadi, F. Ayed & M. El Mahjoub
• Tomato chlorosis virus:  first report in Mayotte Island
  D. Massé, P. Lefeuvre, H. Delatte, A.L. Abdoul Karime, B. Hostachy, B. Reynaud & J.M. Lett

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