ASTA Pest Database for Seeds (PeDS)

Scientific name

Dactylis glomerata

Crop

cocksfoot

1 Related Pests

Scientific name

Rathayibacter rathatyi

Type

bacterium

Other Names

Agrobacterium rathayi, Aplanobacter rathayi, Bacterium rathayi, Clavibacter rathayi, Corynebacterium michiganense pv. rathayi, Corynebacterium rathayi, Erwinia rathay, Phytomonas rathayi, Pseudobacterium rathayi

Distribution

China, India, Japan, Iran, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, Ethiopia, northern countries of Europe

US Distribution

OR, VA

Countries Listing Pest

China

Data Reviewed

2021-04-21

Other Notes

Host Range

rye, bermuda grass and cocksfoot (poaceae)

Seed a Pathway:

Seed Reference

CORBTR-3,

Seed Comments

Pathway not proven. Report indicated that 3 of 49 seed samples were found with the pathogen, however, no other data proving pathogenicity was cited.

Recommended Health Test

Seed Test

CORBTR-3,

Detection Type

Test Reference

Seed Detection Comments

Risk Type

Risk Reference

Risk Comments

Reference Index

CORBTR-3

Bagger O, 1977. Plant diseases in Demark In, 93rd Annual Survey. Lyngby, Denmark: State Plant Pathology Institute

gumming disease of grasses (Rathayibacter rathatyi)