During the summer of 2014, symptoms of upwardly rolled leaves, yellowing and stunted growth were observed in ∼14% of chilli pepper cv. Pasilla plants from 40 ha of commercial fields in the municipality of Villa de Cos, Zacatecas, Mexico. Beet leafhoppers (Circulifer tenellus) were also collected...

During July 2015, diseased plants of cucumber (Cucumis sativus) were observed in a private garden in the Vilnius Region, Lithuania. Disease symptoms, including leaf yellowing, shortening of internodes, and virescence of flowers, indicated possible infection by a phytoplasma. Samples of leaves were...

During disease surveys conducted in September 2015 at 3 Zimbabwean farms in 3 districts, weeds in and near onion fields were found to have thrips feeding damage symptoms. Additionally, some weed leaves were chlorotic and deformed. Onion leaves and scapes had irregular, grey-to-bleached white...

In August 2015, sweet pepper plants with yellowing and thickening that resembled symptoms caused by viruses were observed in Liaocheng, Shandong Province, China. Heavy aphid infestations were also observed on the plants. The causal pathogen was identified as Melon aphid-borne yellows virus (MABYV)...

In June 2015, bleeding cankers were observed on the main stem of black oaks (Quercus velutina) also damaged by the from gall wasp, Zapatella davisae (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA. The sapwood underneath bleeding cankers was darkly discoloured and contrasted...

Carrot (Daucus carota cv. Mascot) plants exhibiting symptoms of yellowing, purpling, and curling of leaves, proliferation of shoots, formation of hairy secondary roots, and plant decline were observed in March 2014 and February 2015 in commercial fields in the Gharb Region of Morocco. The symptoms...

Appropriate management of invasive fungi requires adequate understanding of their global diversities and movement histories. The fungus Leptographium procerum is associated with root-colonizing forest insects in pine forests throughout the world, and may have contributed to the aggressive behaviour ...

Tomato chlorosis virus (ToCV), a member of genus Crinivirus, family Closteroviridae, is a whitefly-transmitted virus that has spread with increasing frequency of infections in solanaceous crops in China. In August 2014, chlorotic spots were observed on pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) leaves in fields...

Cotton leafroll dwarf virus (CLRDV) is vectored by cotton aphid (Aphis gossypii) and causes Cotton blue disease. This disease results in significant crop losses in commercial cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) from several regions of the world. CLRDV was detected using molecular tools in a sample of Sea...

In August 2015, symptomatic pumpkin (Cucurbita moschata) plants were observed in Linyi, Shandong province, China. Plants exhibited symptoms of leaf mottling, crinkling and mosaic which appeared similar to symptoms caused by Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV). Twenty field samples, 2 symptomatic and...