Ipomoea batatas
sweet potato
1 Related Pests
Streptomyces ipomoeae
bacterium
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Asia: Japan, Vietnam; North America: USA
AZ, CA, FL, IA, NJ, TX
Sudan
2025-11-05
Streptomyces ipomoeae is soil-borne causing soil rot of sweet potato, producing corky brown lesions on roots. It spreads through contaminated soil or infected plant material. It causes more damage in dry alkaline soils and can survive in soil for long periods. Seed is not a pathway.
Main: sweet potato
No
CABI CPC, STREIP-1, STREIP-2, STREIP-3
Seed is not a known pathway.
CABI CPC, STREIP-1, STREIP-2, STREIP-3
Crop Protection Compendium. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. www.cabi.org/cpc.
Ames, T. (1997). Sweetpotato: major pests, diseases, and nutritional disorders. International Potato Center.
Loria, R., Bukhalid, R. A., Fry, B. A., & King, R. R. (1997). Plant pathogenicity in the genus Streptomyces. Plant disease, 81(8), 836-846.
Ristaino, J. B. (1993). Infection of sweetpotato fibrous roots by Streptomyces ipomoeae: Influence of soil water potential. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 25(2), 185-192.
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