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Potato (Solanum tuberosum) - (Root crops)

List of pests-diseases-weeds for country: U.S.A. (SW)

Information on all pests, diseases and weeds can be found in the downloadable Excel files
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diseases:

Ascomycota - Dothideomycetes:

Alternaria protenta
Alternaria solani
Boeremia foveata
Helminthosporium solani

Ascomycota - Leotiomycetes:

Golovinomyces cichoracearum

Ascomycota - Sordariomycetes:

Neocosmospora solani

Bacteria:

Liberibacter solanacearum
Pectobacterium atrosepticum

Basidiomycota:

Athelia rolfsii

Other fungal-like organisms:

Globisporangium ultimum
Phytophthora erythroseptica
Phytophthora infestans
Spongospora subterranea

Plant parasitic nematodes:

Meloidogyne arenaria
Meloidogyne chitwoodi
Meloidogyne graminis
Meloidogyne hapla
Meloidogyne incognita
Meloidogyne javanica
Meloidogyne partityla
Pratylenchus neglectus
Pratylenchus penetrans

Plant viruses:

Potato latent virus
Potato mop-top virus
Potato virus Y

pests:

Coleoptera:

Leptinotarsa decemlineata

Hemiptera - Sternorrhyncha:

Bactericera cockerelli
Ferrisia malvastra

Lepidoptera:

Phthorimaea operculella