Other Plant Disease — Worldwide/Unknown
The Kiwifruit Vine Health (KVH) program has shown [strain] Psa-V resistance to streptomycin in 2 Te Puke [Western Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand] orchards. The detections were made in the most recent tests of an ongoing copper and streptomycin resistance monitoring program, which has been in place since 2011 to ensure resistance is detected early.
KVH said these finds were ‘not completely unexpected’. The streptomycin-resistant Psa-V was still susceptible to copper. “Resistance to
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