PRO/PL> Liberibacter, carrot – Germany: 1st rep (NI)

Other Plant Disease — Germany
In September 2014, symptoms resembling those of ‘_Candidatus_ Liberibacter solanacearum’ (the potato haplotypes are listed in the EPPO A1 List) were observed in commercial carrot (_Daucus carota_) fields in Niedersachsen [Lower Saxony], Germany. These fields were also infested by the carrot psyllid _Trioza apicalis_, and the infection rate was about 50 per cent symptomatic plants/field. Symptoms included leaf curling, yellow and purple discoloration of leaves, stunted growth of shoots and