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Table 3.A1.1. Insect, mite and other Brassicacous crop pests

and their regional distribution (cont.)

Order, genus and species Common name Regions affected

Thysanoptera

Thrips tabaci Lind. Onion thrips Worldwide

Tylenchida

Meloidogyne ethiopica Whitehead Not reported South America, Europe, Africa

Meloidogyne graminicola Golden &

Birchfield

Rice root knot nematode United States, South America, South Africa, India,

South East Asia

Pratylenchus neglectus (Rensch)

Filipjev & Stekhoven

California meadow nematode Europe, Russian Federation, Pakistan

Source: Information drawn from CAB International Crop Protection Compendium; Bonnemaison (1965);
Lamb (1989); Thomas (1994).

Table 3.A1.2. Diseases of rapeseed = Canola

(B. napus L. and Brassica rapa L. [= B. campestris L.])

Common name(s) Scientific name (and synonyms)

Bacterial black rot Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Pammel 1895)

Dowson 1939

= Xanthomonas campestris pv. raphani

= Xanthomonas campestris pv. aberrans

Bacterial leaf spot Xanthomonas campestris pv. armoraciae (McCulloch 1929) Dye 1978

Bacterial pod rot* Pseudomonas syringae pv. maculicola (McCulloch 1911) Young, Dye and Wilkie 1978)

(Canada, United Kingdom)

Bacterial soft rot Erwinia carotovora (Jones 1901) Bergey et al. 1923

Pseudomonas marginalis pv. marginalis (Brown 1918)

Stevens 1925

Scab Streptomyces spp.

Streptomyces scabiei corrig. (ex Thaxter 1891) Lambert and Loria 1989

= Streptomyces scabies (Thaxter 1891) Waksman and Henrici 1948

Crown gall Agrobacterium tumefaciens (Smith and Townsend 1907) Conn 1942

Fungal diseases

Alternaria black spot =

Dark pod spot

(United Kingdom)

Alternaria brassicae (Berk.) Sacc.

A. brassicicola (Schwein.) Wiltshire

A. japonica H. Yoshii

= A. raphani Groves and Skolko

Anthracnose Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Penz. and Sacc. in Penz.

Glomerella cingulata (Stoneman) Spauld. and H. Schrenk [teleomorph]

C. higginsianum Sacc. in Higgins

Black leg = stem canker

(United Kingdom)

Leptosphaeria maculans (Desmaz.) Ces. and De Not

Phoma lingam (Tode: Fr.) Desmaz. [anamorph]

Black mold rot Rhizopus stolonifer (Ehrenb.: Fr.) Vuill.

Black root Aphanomyces raphani Kendrick

Brown girdling root rot* Rhizoctonia solani Kühn (Canada)

Thanatephorus cucumeris (A.B. Frank) Donk [teleomorph]

Cercospora leaf spot Cercospora brassicicola Henn.

Clubroot Plasmodiophora brassicae Woronin

Downy mildew Peronospora parasitica (Pers.: Fr.)Fr.

Fusarium wilt Fusarium oxysporum Schlechtend.: Fr. f. sp. conglutinans (Wollenweb.) W.C. Snyder and

H.N. Hans

Gray mold Botrytis cinerea Pers.: Fr.

Botryotinia fuckeliana (de Bary) Whetzel [teleomorph]