Volume 9: February 2004 - July 2004

• New report of Alternaria alternata causing leaf blight of tomato in Pakistan
  K.P. Akhtar, M.Y. Saleem, M. Asghar & M.A. Haq
• First report of Malvastrum yellow vein virus infecting Ageratum conyzoides
  T. Jiang & X.P. Zhou
• Isolation and identification of a novel tymovirus from Nemesia in the UK
  A.L. Skelton, B. Jarvis, R. Koenig, D.E. Lesemann & R.A. Mumford
• Occurrence of pith necrosis caused by Pseudomonas fluorescens on tomato plants in Turkey
  H. Saygili, Y. Aysan, F. Sahin, N. Ustun & M. Mirik
• First report of Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum on banana in Uganda
  W. Tushemereirwe, A. Kangire, F. Ssekiwoko, L.C. Offord, J. Crozier, E. Boa, M. Rutherford & J.J. Smith
• First report of Phytophthora tentaculata on Verbena sp. in Spain
  E. Moralejo, M. Puig & W.A. Man in’t Veld
• Anamorphic Erysiphe australiana causing powdery mildew on Lagerstroemia indica in Brazil
  J.R.Liberato & R.W. Barreto
• First report of Fusarium crown and root rot of tomato caused by Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. radicis-lycopersici in Turkey
  C. Can, S. Yucel, N. Korolev & T. Katan
• First report of shoot proliferation of bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis) in Poland, associated with phytoplasma infection
  M. Kamińskaa, H. Śliwa & A. Rudzińska-Langwald
• Melampsora euphorbiae, a new rust disease found on Euphorbia rigida in Turkey
  H. Kavak
• First report of Ganoderma colossus on Delonix regia in Oman
  S. Al-Bahry, A.E. Elshafie & M. Deadman
• First report of Ganoderma colossus on Ficus altissima in Oman
  A. El Shafie, S. Al Bahri, A. Al Saadi, A. Al Raeesi, Y. Al Maqbali & M. Deadman
• First report of false smut disease caused by Graphiola phoenicis on date palm trees in Qatar
  E.H. Abbas & A.S. Abdulla
• First record of Cercospora richardiaecola causing leaf spots on Zantedeschia aethiopica in Brazil
  B.S. Vieira & R.W. Barreto
• Resistance breaking strain of Tomato spotted wilt virus (Tospovirus; Bunyaviridae) on resistant pepper cultivars in Almeria (Spain)
  P. Margaria, M. Ciuffo & M. Turina
• Verticillium-wilt (Verticillium albo-atrum) on Medicago sativa (alfalfa) in Iran
  M. Ghalandar, E. Clewes, D.J. Barbara, R. Zare and A. Heydari
• First report of fruit rot caused by Phytophthora syringae on Pyracantha in the UK
  B. Henricot, I. Waghorn, G. Denton & A.M. Pérez Sierra
• First report of ramorum bleeding canker on Quercus falcata, caused by Phytophthora ramorum
  C.M. Brasier, S. Denman, J. Rose, S.A. Kirk, K.J.D. Hughes, R.L. Griffin, C.R. Lane, A.J. Inman & J.F. Webber
• First report of Rhizoctonia solani on Diplotaxis tenuifolia in Italy
  R. Nicoletti, F. Raimo & G. Miccio
• First record of Erysiphe elevata on Catalpa bignonioides in the UK
  R. T. A. Cook, B. Henricot & L. Kiss
• First Report of Coconut Lethal Yellowing Disease in Guatemala
  F. Mejía, M. Palmieri, C. Oropeza, M. Doyle, N. Harrison, E. Aguilar, M. Narváez, R. Estrada & G. Ortiz
• A new yellow mosaic disease of Chayote in India
  B. Mandal, S. Mandal, S.S. Sohrab, K.B. Pun & A.Varma
• Natural infection of maize by Pennisetum mosaic virus in China
  Z.F. Fan, W.J. Wang, X. Jiang, X.M. Liang, F.R.Wang & H.F. Li
• First report of Tomato leaf curl New Delhi virus affecting chilli pepper in Pakistan
  M. Hussain S. Mansoor, S. Iram, Y. Zafar & R.W. Briddon
• Epidemic outbreaks of powdery mildew caused by Leveillula taurica on Capparis spinosa in Turkey
  H. Kavak
• First report of Hakea sericea leaf infection caused by Pestalotiopsis funerea in Portugal
  M.F. Sousa, R.M. Tavares, H. Gerós & T. Lino-Neto
• First report of Rhizoctonia solani anastomosis group 5 (AG5) on couch grass in Britain
  J.W. Woodhall & A.K. Lees
• A potexvirus related to Papaya mosaic virus isolated from moss rose (Portulaca grandiflora) in Italy
  M. Ciuffo & M. Turina
• A new yellowing disease in Phaseolus vulgaris associated with a whitefly-transmitted virus
  E. Segundo, G. Martín, I.M. Cuadrado & D. Janssen
• Napier grass stunt: a new disease associated with a 16SrXI Group phytoplasma in Kenya
  P. Jones, B.J. Devonshire, T.J. Holman & S. Ajanga
• First Report of Mungbean yellow mosaic India virus on mungbean in Pakistan
  M. Hussain, J. Qazi, S. Mansoor, S. Iram, M. Bashir & Y. Zafar
• First report of Wisteria vein mosaic virus in China
  W.X. Liang, L.M. Song, Y. Li, G.Z. Tian, H.F. Li & Z.F. Fan
• First report of Ramorum dieback (Phytophthora ramorum) on Hamamelis virginiana in the UK
  P.M. Giltrap, A.J. Inman, V.C. Barton, A.V. Barnes, C.R. Lane, K.J.D. Hughes, J. Tomlinson, M.L. Dean & K. Izzard
• First report of ramorum bud and leaf blight (Phytophthora ramorum) on Syringa vulgaris in the UK
  P.A Beales, A. Schlenzig & A. J. Inman
• First record of Melampsoridium hiratsukanum on alder in Norway
  H.B. Gjćrum, K.A. Lye & H. Solheim
• Cylindrocladium crotalariae causing red crown rot of soybean in China
  Z.H. Ma, Z. D. Zhang, Y.X. Wang & X.B. Yang
• First report of gummy stem blight caused by Didymella bryoniae on muskmelon (Cucumis melo) in India
  J. Sudisha, T. Vasanth Kumar, S.R. Niranjana & H. Shekar Shetty
• Urapan (Fraxinus udhei) dieback a new disease associated with a phytoplasma in Colombia
  J.J. Filgueira, L. Franco-Lara, J.E. Salcedo, S.L. Gaitan & E.R. Boa
• First report of phytoplasmas in the aster yellows group infecting grapevine in Tunisia
  S. M'hirsi, H. Acheche, S. Fattouch, G. Boccardo, M. Marrakchi & N. Marzouki
• First report of ramorum leaf blight and dieback (Phytophthora ramorum) on Camellia spp. in the UK
  P.A. Beales, T. Brokenshire, A.V. Barnes, V.C. Barton & K.J.D. Hughes
• First report of honeysuckle leaf blight (Insolibasidium deformans) on honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.) in the UK
  P.A. Beales, J. Scrace, R.T.A. Cook, A.V. Barnes & C.R. Lane
• Canker on umbra tree caused by Fusarium sambucinum
  M.R. Carranza, G.A. Lori & S. Larran
• First report of Verticillium dahliae on Hebe × franciscana in Italy
  G. Conca & A. Infantino

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