Other Plant Disease -- Australia
Seeka, New Zealand's biggest kiwifruit grower, says it may have found PSA [bacterial canker] in an orchard it is developing in Australia. It has notified Agriculture Victoria of unusual bacterial symptoms and is removing suspicious plant material pending further test results. The symptoms are consistent with PSA. The affected plants are in a non-producing part of the orchard on 2 year old vines.
PSA in New Zealand is estimated to have infected 80 per cent of the country's kiwifruit orchards
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6069533&promed&0
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