APSnet Education Center Introduction to the Pathogen Groups Bacteria as plant pathogens Las bacterias como patógenos vegetales (Spanish) Fastidious vascular-colonizing bacteria Bacterias fastidiosas colonizadoras vasculares (Spanish) Plant Disease Lessons Bacterial leaf scorch (BLS) of shade trees Citrus canker Crown gall Fire blight of apple and pear Lethal yellowing of palm APSnet Features Antibiotics for Plant Disease Control: Silver Bullets or Rusty Sabers? Citrus Huanglongbing: The Pathogen and Its Impact Phytoplasma Casts a Magic Spell That Turns the Fair Poinsettia into a Christmas Showpiece
Plants, Pathogens, and People: Crown Gall GO TO Resources, Diseases, Crown Gall for information GO TO Activities, Pathogens, Crown Gall for virtual laboratories Includes an animation of the crown gall disease cycle. To see this, you must make a few clicks: (1) Resources, (2) Diseases, (3) Crown gall, (4) Pathogen biology: What causes crown gall? (5) On the left: What is the disease cycle of Agrobacterium tumefaciens?
Quarantine Maps of Some Bacterial Diseases Discussed in This Chapter Type in the name of the pathogen in the database for the map and other information. Citrus canker (Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri) Coconut lethal yellowing phytoplasma Fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) Huanglongbing (citrus greening) Xylella fastidiosa
State of Florida Websites Citrus Health Response Program: Citrus Canker Citrus Health Response Program: Citrus Greening Disease (Huanglongbing)