Claim · model-written summary
Lonsdalea britannica pathogenicity was confirmed on the almond cultivars Ferragnès and Mamaee in detached shoot assays.
- Taxon
- almond
Prunus dulcise4 - Material
- 'Ferragnès' and 'Mamaee'e2
- Treatment
- detached shoot assayse2
- Interactor
- Lonsdalea britannicaLonsdalea britannicae1pathogen
- Outcome
- Pathogenicitye2
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Verbatim
e1“a Gram-negative bacterium was consistently isolated (yielding 118 isolates) and identified as Lonsdalea britannica based on phenotypic traits”
e2“Pathogenicity was confirmed through detached shoot assays on almond cultivars 'Ferragnès' and 'Mamaee'”
e4“This study constitutes the first confirmed report worldwide of L. britannica causing foamy bacterial canker on almond”
Title
Foamy bacterial canker of almond caused by Lonsdalea britannica in Iran
Naser Amanifar; Majid Siampour Plant Disease 2026. doi:10.1094/pdis-02-26-0414-sr
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Observation A Gram-negative bacterium was consistently isolated from 259 symptomatic almond samples, yielding 118 isolates identified as Lonsdalea britannica.
- Observation Greenhouse inoculations on almond seedlings fulfilled Koch's postulates for Lonsdalea britannica.
- Observation This study is the first confirmed worldwide report of Lonsdalea britannica causing foamy bacterial canker on almond.
- Observation Symptoms of foamy bacterial canker emerged in late spring and produced sunken necrotic lesions on almond.
- Observation Infected almond trees succumbed to the disease within two to three years.