Pests occurring on Cymbidium

Pests on the move

Going hungry: The Irish Famine of the 1840s may appear a distant memory, but new strains of the pathogen that triggered it are still emerging and threatening food security. The image shows the Famine Monument at Dublin. (Photo: Professor Colin R. Howard (http://www.colinhoward.co.uk/photography.htm).) A simple line graph can tell a story of unimaginable tragedies. The population of Ireland incr...

.Data Sheets on Quarantine Pests

Name: Citrus blight disease Taxonomic position: Unknown Common names: Young tree decline, sandhill decline, roadside decline, rough lemon decline (English) Declinamiento, marchitamiento repentino (Spanish) Declinio (Portuguese) Notes on taxonomy and nomenclature: Typical citrus blight is the disease known in Florida (USA). More or less similar diseases have been described from other parts of th...

Data Sheets on Quarantine Pests

Name: Xanthomonas translucens pv. translucens (Jones et al.) Vauterin et al. Synonyms: Xanthomonas campestris pv. translucens (Jones et al.) Dye Xanthomonas campestris pv. cerealis (Hagborg) Dye Xanthomonas campestris pv. hordei (Hagborg) Dye Xanthomonas campestris pv. secalis (Reddy et al.) Dye Xanthomonas campestris pv. undulosa (Smith et al.) Dye Taxonomic position: Bacteria: Gracilicutes Co...

Detection of Cymbidium Mosaic Virus (CYMV) on Vanda Plants

Orchid plants are the members of Orchidaceae consisting of more than 25,000 species, which are distributed almost all over the world but more abundantly in the tropics. There are 177 genera, 1,125 species of orchids that originated in Thailand. Orchid plant collected from different nurseries showing Chlorotic and mosaic symptoms were observed on Vanda plants and it was suspected to infect with ...

Data Sheets on Quarantine Pests