Nicotiana rustica
(wild tobacco)

Identity

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Preferred Scientific Name

• Nicotiana rustica

Preferred Common Name

• wild tobacco

International Common Names

• French: petit Tabac

Local Common Names

• Germany: Bauern- Tabak
• Italy: Tabacco brasile
• Netherlands: Boerentabak

EPPO code

• NIORU (Nicotiana rustica)

Taxonomic Tree

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• Domain: Eukaryota
•     Kingdom: Plantae
•         Phylum: Spermatophyta
•             Subphylum: Angiospermae
•                 Class: Dicotyledonae
•                     Order: Solanales
•                         Family: Solanaceae
•                             Genus: Nicotiana
•                                 Species: Nicotiana rustica

List of Pests

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Major host of:

Agrotis segetum (turnip moth); Globodera tabacum (tobacco cyst nematode); Pseudomonas syringae pv. mellea (Wisconsin tobacco disease); Rhizobium radiobacter (crown gall); Rhizobium rhizogenes (gall); Tobacco yellow vein assistor luteovirus; Tomato spotted wilt virus (tomato spotted wilt)

Minor host of:

Noctua pronuba (common yellow underwing moth); Pectobacterium atrosepticum (potato blackleg disease); Pepino mosaic virus; Pseudomonas viridiflava (bacterial leaf blight of tomato (USA)); Ralstonia solanacearum (bacterial wilt of potato); Rhodococcus fascians (fasciation: leafy gall); Spongospora subterranea f.sp. subterranea (powdery scab)

Wild host of:

Andean potato mottle virus (Andean mottle of potato); Chrysodeixis includens (soybean looper); Cucumber mosaic virus (cucumber mosaic); Xiphinema index (fan-leaf virus nematode)

Associated with (not a host):

Olpidium brassicae (Olpidium seedling blight)

Host of (source - data mining):

Alternaria solani (early blight of potato and tomato); Broad bean mottle virus