Other Plant Disease -- Canada
The zebra chip pathogen has been found for the 1st time in Western Canada. University of Lethbridge's Dan Johnson [said that] so far, _Candidatus_ Liberibacter solanacearum (Lso), the zebra chip pathogen, has been detected in small numbers of potato psyllids -- the pathogen's insect vector. But the pathogen has not yet been found in any potato plant tissue. "There's no infection of potatoes, which is good news. But it's likely to turn up," he says. Insects captured in separate sites have
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