Internet Research

Exercise 3.1.
Using the APS list, Common Names of Plant Diseases or the disease lists in Appendix 2, select a bacterial disease of an annual herbaceous plant. Consult the Internet and other resources to find the answers to the following questions:

  a. What is the name of the bacterium?
  b. How does the bacterium survive adverse environmental conditions?
  c. What host plants does the bacterium infect?
  d. How is the bacterium disseminated horizontally (plant to plant)
      and vertically (to the next generation)?
  e. What management practices are recommended?

Exercise 3.2.
Find a fact sheet or disease profile of a bacterial disease on a plant of interest. What are the symptoms and signs of the disease? How is diagnosis confirmed (i.e., how is the bacterium identified?) What diseases caused by other pathogens might be confused with this disease?