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Cryptostroma corticale in Italy: new reports of sooty bark of Acer pseudoplatanus and first outbreak on Acer campestre

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  • Rebekka SCHLÖSSER,
  • Alberto SANTINI,
  • Alessia Lucia PEPORI,
  • Tiziana BASCHIERI ,
  • Carlo CAMPANI,
  • Dario FERRARI,
  • Giorgio MARESI,
  • Domenico RIZZO,
  • Leonel STAZIONE,
  • Giovanni BISCIONI,
  • Luisa GHELARDINI
Rebekka SCHLÖSSER
National Research Council, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (CNR-IPSP), Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
Alberto SANTINI
National Research Council, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (CNR-IPSP), Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
Alessia Lucia PEPORI
National Research Council, Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection (CNR-IPSP), Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
Tiziana BASCHIERI
Regione Emilia-Romagna, Settore Fitosanitario e Difesa delle Produzioni, Bologna, Italy
Carlo CAMPANI
Regione Toscana, Direzione Agricoltura e Sviluppo Rurale, Settore Servizio Fitosanitario Regionale e di Vigilanza e Controllo Agroforestale, Firenze, Italy
Dario FERRARI
Regione Emilia-Romagna, Settore Fitosanitario e Difesa delle Produzioni, Bologna, Italy
Giorgio MARESI
Fondazione Edmund Mach, Centro Trasferimento Tecnologico, San Michele all’Adige, Trento, Italy
Domenico RIZZO
Regione Toscana, Direzione Agricoltura e Sviluppo Rurale, Settore Servizio Fitosanitario Regionale e di Vigilanza e Controllo Agroforestale, Firenze, Italy
Leonel STAZIONE
University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), Firenze, Italy
Giovanni BISCIONI
University of Florence, Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI), Firenze, Italy
Luisa GHELARDINI
University of Florence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/phyto-15744
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Published 2024-12-15

Keywords

  • maple,
  • Alien Invasive Species,
  • Emerging Plant Diseases,
  • Opportunistic Pathogens,
  • Human health

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SCHLÖSSER R., “Cryptostroma corticale in Italy: new reports of sooty bark of Acer pseudoplatanus and first outbreak on Acer campestre”, Phytopathol. Mediterr., pp. 399–406, Dec. 2024.

Copyright (c) 2024 Rebekka SCHLÖSSER, Alberto SANTINI, Alessia Lucia PEPORI, Tiziana BASCHIERI , Carlo CAMPANI, Dario FERRARI, Giorgio MARESI, Domenico RIZZO, Leonel STAZIONE, Giovanni BISCIONI, Luisa GHELARDINI

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Abstract

Monitoring of emerging plant diseases in the Apennine mountains (central Italy) identified Cryptostroma corticale as the cause of the disease sooty bark of maple trees. The identified sites were located in rural or forested areas, next to buildings, in villages or suburbs, and one site was in a forest. Samples of symptomatic tissues were taken from Acer pseudoplatanus and/or A. campestre, as well as asymptomatic samples from A. campestre and Aesculus hippocastanum. All samples tested positive to a species-specific qPCR assay for the presence of C. corticale, indicating wide incidence of the disease in the northern Apennines of Italy, after attempted eradication of the first small group of infected plants were found in 2012.

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